Patent ID: 8855561

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a wireless communication link between a mobile device and a document processing device; determining that data collected and stored in a memory of the document processing device related to the functionality of the document processing device based on a time reference of a particular document has not been transmitted to the mobile device in a predetermined time period; transmitting, by a transmitter of the document processing device, the data stored in the memory of the document processing device related to the functionality of the document processing device to the mobile device based on the predetermined time period that was determined, wherein the data comprises one or more of financial-related data, replenishment-related data, and maintenance-related data; and receiving, by a receiver of the document processing device, data to control a functionality of the document processing device from the mobile device, wherein the receiving and transmitting data occurs when the mobile device is in a vicinity of the document processing device for a predetermined time period, wherein the received data includes data to clone a document processing device to a common configuration or load new software to the document processing device.