Patent ID: 9282080
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of transmitting device status information from a first internal network, through a first internal network firewall, over an external communications network to a second network, the first internal network being connected to at least one marking device and to at least one computing device having a memory, the method comprising: sending a signal from the at least one computing device to the at least one marking device; receiving data at the least one computing device from the at least one marking device over the first internal network in response to the at least one marking device receiving the signal from the at least one computing device; storing in the memory of the at least one computing device data previously received from the at least one marking device as a predetermined value, the previously received data and the data received from the at least one marking device correspond to data representative of a number of marked media being generated by the at least one marking device; comparing with the computing device the received data to the predetermined value stored in the memory of the computing device to provide a comparison result; generating an indicator that the received data was not within a predetermined range about the predetermined value; and transmitting the received data with the generated indicator from the first internal network, through the firewall, and through the external communications network to the second network in response to the comparison result indicating the received data is within the predetermined range about the predetermined value stored in the memory of the at least one computing device.