Patent ID: 7185074
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. In a network comprising a directory server, a mail server, a deployment server, at least one workstation, and at least one intelligent peripheral device, an installation method for notifying at least one potential user that said at least one intelligent peripheral device is available and configuring said at least one workstation to use said at least one intelligent peripheral device, said installation method comprising the steps of: (a) providing said at least one intelligent peripheral device access to a potential-users file, said potential-users file having at least one entry representing a potential user at a workstation on said network; (b) sending an announcement from an intelligent peripheral device having means for communicating with other devices on a network to at least one potential user represented as an entry in said potential-users file; (c) receiving at said intelligent peripheral device a response from said at least one potential user to said announcement; and (d) configuring said workstation associated with said at least one potential user to use said intelligent peripheral device.