Patent ID: 11890814
Assignee: KEMEERA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for collecting data from 3-D printers, including:
a message queuing system coupled in communication over a network with a plurality of 3-D printers via aggregator software to one or more subgroups of respective individual 3-D printers;
wherein the message queuing system is configured to provide, for group administration, at least one party-line queue used to broadcast messages to the 3-D printers, as a group;
wherein the message queuing system is further configured to provide, for individual administration, a plurality of private-line queues used to exchange messages with respective 3-D printers, individually and privately; and
wherein the private-line queues are configured for the message queuing system to send data to the respective printers in response to pull requests and to receive data from the respective printers without imposing flow control and without dropping parts of the data.