Patent ID: 8508765

Claim:
A method of transmitting scanned data from a network scanner to a host, the network scanner and the host connected via a network assigning an Internet Protocol (IP) address to a device participating in the network, the method comprising: accessing the host from the network scanner using the IP address of the host, by the network scanner; obtaining, by the network scanner, information regarding at least one scan service port of the host according to a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) via the access; detecting, by the network scanner, the scan service port of the host based on the obtained information according to the HTTP, the scan service port being a port number associated with an IP address of the host and used by a server running a service on the host for receiving scanned data from a scanning operation independently initiated by any network scanner in the same network; and transmitting the scanned data from the network scanner to the host via the detected scan service port.