Patent ID: 11947851
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A printing device comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memories;
a print process executing on the printing device for printing print jobs at the printing device; and
a configuration agent executing on the printing device and configured to:
receive, from a configuration manager via one or more computer networks, first configuration data for the printing device, wherein the first configuration data specifies a first plurality of settings for the printing device,
apply the first plurality of settings from the configuration data to the printing device so that the printing device operates in accordance with the first plurality of settings,
generate, via an algorithm that uses as inputs one or more settings from the first plurality of settings specified by the first configuration data, first configuration identification data that uniquely corresponds to the first plurality of settings specified by the first configuration data,
store the first configuration identification data that uniquely identifies the first plurality of settings specified by the first configuration data in a secure portion of the one or more memories of the printing device that is separate from a portion of the one or more memories in which the first configuration data is stored;
generate second configuration identification data that uniquely corresponds to a second plurality of settings; and
compare the first configuration identification data retrieved from the secure portion of the memory with the second configuration identification data to determine whether a configuration of the printing device has been changed.