Patent ID: 8587808

Claim:
A method to provide availability for a document scanner on a network, the method comprising: retrieving, from a server while the network is available, a list of scan environments available to a user; identifying a scan environment selected by the user from the list of scan environments; retrieving the selected scan environment from the server; and storing the retrieved scan environment at the document scanner, wherein the at least one scan environment stored locally at the document scanner comprises the retrieved scan environment; scanning at least an entire page of a document for the user to generate a scanned document using the document scanner; identifying at the document scanner that the network is not available; storing the scanned document at the document scanner in response to the network not being available; identifying the scan environment stored locally at the document scanner that indicates how the scanned document was processed by the document scanner, the scan environment including a list of scan settings that were used by the document scanner to generate the stored scanned document and also including information describing a destination computer; identifying at the document scanner that the network is available; retrieving the stored scanned document and the scan environment; and sending the retrieved scanned document and the retrieved scan environment from the document scanner to the destination computer over the network in response to identifying that the network is available.