Patent ID: 8711396

Claim:
A printing device comprising: a first Web service that is addressable by one or more clients that are separate from the printing device and that are configured to communicate with the printing device over a network; a second Web service that is addressable by the one or more clients that are separate from the printing device; service metadata that contains: first service metadata for the first Web service, and second service metadata for the second Web service; service relationship data that is generated at the printing device based on the first service metadata and the second service metadata and that indicates a relationship between the first Web service and the second Web service for the printing device; device metadata that contains metadata for the printing device; and a service manager that is configured to: register the first Web service on the printing device, register the second Web service on the printing device, and in response to one or more criteria, associated with the first Web service, being satisfied: determine, based on one or more of the service relationship data or the device metadata, that a set of one or more actions are to be performed with respect to the second Web service, and cause the set of one or more actions to be performed with respect to the second Web service.