Patent ID: 7672991

Claim:
A method of determining a configuration profile for an electronic document processing peripheral device, the configuration profile representing a set of configuration parameters defining an operating mode of the peripheral device, a set of fixed values of the parameters defining a particular configuration of the peripheral device, said method implemented in a communication network that includes at least one client station, at least one server station and at least one processing peripheral device comprising the steps of: obtaining a user identification data item from a request sent by a client station operated by said user; determining user characteristics as a function of the user identification data item, the user characteristics comprising a level of service associated with said user; obtaining a peripheral device identification data item from said request; determining, as a function of the user characteristics and of the peripheral device identification data item obtained, a configuration profile applicable for configuring the operating mode of the peripheral device for a document processing request coming from said user, wherein the determining step further comprises a limiting step of limiting the possible values of certain configuration parameters of the peripheral device as a function of the level of service associated with the user; and sending the configuration profile determined to the client station operated by said user, wherein the user characteristics indicate a level of service subscribed to by the user, and wherein the level of service subscribed to by the user is defined according to a financial sum paid by the user.