Patent ID: 8355170

Claim:
A scanner comprising: a scan engine operable to generate scan data; a communication interface operable to communicate scan messages with a device external to the scanner, the scan messages comprising Web Services on Devices (WSD) Scan Service (WS-Scan) protocol messages and Distributed Scan Management (DSM) protocol messages; and a processing system coupled with the communication interface and coupled with the scan engine, the processing system operable to execute a scan service, the scan service comprising: a protocol processing module operable to process a header of a scan message received from the device external to the scanner to determine if the scan message comprises one of a WS-Scan protocol message and a DSM protocol message, further operable to respond to the device external to the scanner utilizing the WS-Scan protocol if the scan message is a WS-Scan protocol message, and further operable to respond to the device external to the scanner utilizing the DSM protocol if the scan message is a DSM protocol message.