Patent ID: 11894973
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method comprising:
receiving, from a cloud-based management server, over one or more computer networks, at a mediation service, one or more messages that include an identity of an output device, an identity of an active mediation service for the output device, and an identity of each failover mediation service in one or more failover mediation services for the output device;
based on one of the one or more messages, determining that the mediation service is a failover mediation service in the one or more failover mediation services;
after determining that the mediation service is a failover mediation service based on the one of the one or more messages from the cloud-based management server, determining, by the mediation service, that the mediation service is to be a new active mediation service for the output device;
in response to determining that the mediation service is to be the new active mediation service for the output device:
transmitting, over the one or more computer networks, to the cloud-based management server, a notification that indicates that the mediation service is the new active mediation service; and
initiate monitoring of the output device;
wherein the method is performed by the one or more computing devices.