Patent ID: 8879091
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring all printers in an enterprise, comprising: for each transaction, authenticating a customer associated with the enterprise and obtaining a session ticket from a remote server; executing a printer list fetcher for downloading from the remote server a list of in-service printer and print scan load frequency for each location within the enterprise; executing a scheduler for implementing different categories of scans; executing a network scan on a computer network to obtain information for all printers attached to the computer network, a local scan on each computer that is attached to a non-network printer to obtain information for all non-network printers in the enterprise and a port scan to obtain information for all non-catalogued printers; compiling all scanned information, obtained from executing the network scan, the local scan and the port scan, in a file and dispatching the file to an external server; and transmitting the file in the external server to a relevant technician to provide printer status information and usage information for each printer in the enterprise.