Patent ID: 8115947
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: G03G,G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting a provider with input from an imaging device, said method comprising: sending display menu content from a remote computing device (RCD) to a web service module (WSM) on an imaging device (IDev), wherein said display menu content comprises a prompt for user input identifying a descriptor related to a provider resource on said RCD, wherein said display menu content comprises instructions for instructing a user interface (UI) processor on said IDev to convert said display menu content to a format compatible with an IDev display and to display said converted display menu content on said display and wherein said display menu content is a markup language message in a simple object access protocol (SOAP) format; receiving, at said RCD, said descriptor from said IDev WSM, wherein said descriptor was received as user input at a UI input device of said IDev in response to display of said converted display menu content on said IDev display and wherein said descriptor was sent from said input device to said UI processor and formatted into a markup language descriptor message and sent to said WSM where said descriptor was formatted into a SOAP message and sent to said RCD; accessing said provider resource with said RCD, said provider resource comprising provider data correlated with descriptors, wherein said provider data consists of a provider location, pricing data, availability data and provider contact information; identifying, with said provider resource, provider data for at least one provider correlated with said descriptor; obtaining detailed provider information about said at least one provider by accessing at least one independent provider web site for said at least one provider using contact information in said provider data; combining said detailed provider information with said provider data to create complemented provider data; filtering said complemented provider data based on said detailed provider information; selecting a provider based on said filtered, complemented provider data; converting said filtered, complemented provider data for said selected provider into a provider data SOAP message; sending said provider data SOAP message to said IDev WSM; instructing said IDev to send an order to said selected provider, from said IDev, by sending an initiate send command to a document filing API on said IDev, said initiate send command originating from said RCD, said initiate send command derived from said contact data, send time, sender identification, filename, subject and message.