Patent ID: 8115945
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for imaging device job configuration management, said method comprising: identifying user account information for a user of an account, wherein said user account information identifies a plurality of settable values for properties on an imaging device (IDev), wherein said settable values are available to be set by said user of said account within a scope defined in said user account information; sending a request for a list of job configuration properties (JCPs) from an application to said IDev, wherein said request is a markup language simple object access protocol (SOAP) message and wherein said list of JCPs comprises a list of said plurality of settable values; receiving said request for said list of JCPs from said application at said IDev; compiling an IDev-dependent list of JCPs settable by said user based on said user account information; sending said IDev-dependent list of JCPs from said IDev to said application; receiving said IDev-dependent list of JCPs at said application; sending a request, from said application to said IDev, for current values of said JCPs on said IDev-dependent list of JCPs; receiving, at said application, said current values of said JCPs; determining, with said application and based on said current values, which JCPs need to be modified to configure said IDev for an imaging job; constructing, with said application, an Optimized Job Definition List (OJDL) that defines an imaging job using said list of JCPs, wherein said OJDL contains only commands to change said current values of said JCPs that are incompatible with said imaging job.