Patent ID: 8619341

Claim:
A method of implementing legacy scanners within a Distributed Scan Management (DSM) environment, the method comprising: intercepting, at a proxy scan service, information transmitted between a DSM service and a legacy scanner, wherein the DSM service recognizes a first format message for the information comprising one of a Distributed Scan Processing (DSP) format message of the DSM environment and a Distributed Scan Device (DSD) format message of the DSM environment, and wherein the legacy scanner recognizes a second format message for the information that is non-compliant with at least one of the DSP format message of the DSM environment and the DSD format message of the DSM environment; converting, at the proxy scan service, the information between the first format message of the DSM environment and the second format message of the legacy scanner; and completing, at the proxy scan service, the transmission between the DSM service and the legacy scanner using the converted information.