Patent ID: 8593676

Claim:
A cloud administration system comprising: a processing module in communication with a plurality of print devices, wherein the processing module is located remotely from each of the plurality of print devices; an accounting information storage module in communication with the processing module; a configuration information storage module in communication with the processing module; and a dynamic print device information storage module in communication with the processing module, wherein the processing module is configured to: receive accounting information from a first queue of at least one of the plurality of print devices, wherein each first queue is dedicated to storing only accounting information, store the accounting information in the accounting information storage module, enable a first application computing device to access the accounting information from the accounting information storage module, receive configuration information from a second queue of at least one of the plurality of print devices, wherein each second queue is dedicated to storing only configuration information, store the configuration information in the configuration information storage module, enable a second application computing device to access configuration information from the configuration information storage module, receive dynamic print device information from a third queue of at least one of the plurality of print devices, wherein each third queue is dedicated to storing only dynamic print device information, store the dynamic print device information in the dynamic print device information storage module, enable a third application computing device to access dynamic print device information from the dynamic print device information storage module, wherein each of the first, second and third application computing devices is located remotely from the processing module, wherein the cloud administration system operates as a shared resource for each of the plurality of print devices and each of the first, second and third application computing devices.