Patent ID: 7301650
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A business to business communication system for controlling and monitoring a document processing device through network communications, comprising: a document processing device responsive to remote communication signals and capable of issuing device operating status signals, the communication signals and status signals being received and sent, respectively, via a network system; a network interface controller interposed between the document processing device and the network system for distinguishing the remote communication signals as job data or control data wherein the control data comprises object-oriented renderina data; and a document processing device controller, disposed intermediate the network interface controller and the document processing device, for translating the job data, which is communicated from the network interface controller to the document processing device independently from the control data, into a data format executable by the document processing device; while the control data is communicated to the document processing device directly straight from the network interface controller and independently from the job data and wherein the object-oriented rendering data distinguishes text, pictures and business graphics for enhancing document processing device operation.