Patent ID: 8179545

Claim:
A method for configuring an imaging device, comprising: at a first imaging device, monitoring communications exchanged between clients and other imaging devices over a network to identify requests to print electronic documents; the first imaging device detecting a particular request to print an electronic document, issued by a client to a second imaging device that is different than the first imaging device; in response to the first imaging device detecting the particular request to print the electronic document issued by the client to the second imaging device: the first imaging device determining one or more values of one or more features contained in the particular request to print the electronic document issued by the client to the second imaging device, the first imaging device updating a current configuration at the first imaging device for processing requests to print electronic documents at the first imaging device by updating, based upon the one or more values of the one or more features contained in the particular request to print the electronic document issued by the client to the second imaging device, one or more values of one or more features used to process requests to print electronic documents at the first imaging device, and the first imaging device using the updated one or more values of the one or more features to process one or more subsequent requests to print electronic documents at the first imaging device.