Patent ID: 7490146
Filing Date: 2009-02-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring a business office image handling device comprising: polling, over a local area network (LAN) at a first frequency, the business office image handling device by a remote monitoring computer using a network management protocol for a first information corresponding to the business office image handling device; storing, by the remote monitoring computer, the first information collected by the remote monitoring computer at the first frequency in a digital repository located at the remote monitoring computer cumulatively following the polling at a first frequency step; polling, over the LAN at a second frequency, different from the first frequency, the business office image handling device by the remote monitoring computer using a network management protocol for the first information and a second information corresponding to the business office image handling device; sending, by the remote monitoring computer, the first information and the second information collected by the remote monitoring computer from the remote monitoring computer to a central computer through a wide area network using a transfer protocol following the polling at a second frequency step; and resetting values in the digital repository corresponding to the first information by the remote monitoring computer following the sending step, wherein: the step of polling at the second frequency comprises storing the first information and the second information collected at the second frequency in a first map structure, and the step of sending by the remote monitoring computer includes formatting, by the remote computer, the first information and the second information collected by the remote monitoring computer at the second frequency and stored in the first map structure and the first information collected at the first frequency, retrieved in the querying step, and stored in the second map structure before the message is sent, into a common map structure.