Patent ID: 7451200

Claim:
One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, direct a computing system to perform a method comprising: discovering printing devices on a network by monitoring for signals indicating that the printing devices are present on the network; recording information about the printing devices in a main device list; organizing at least a portion of the information from the main device list into one or more secondary device lists based upon criteria that define each of the one or more secondary device lists, wherein a newly discovered printing device on the network which satisfies the criteria is visually denoted to a user in a graphical display of the one or more secondary device lists and wherein user input defines the criteria, one type of user input being textual criteria information typed into a graphical interface by a user; and updating the one or more secondary device lists each time a new printer device is discovered on the network by recording information about the newly discovered printing device in the one or more secondary device lists, if information pertaining to the newly discovered printing device matches any of the criteria for the one or more secondary device lists.