Patent ID: 8099773

Claim:
A method of configuring a network scan system, which includes a network scanner accessible by a plurality of computers to at least scan, print, transmit, and receive information, and to communicate with at least one computer of the plurality of computers through a firewall, the method comprising: installing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server module into the at least one computer; inputting into the computer an Internet protocol (IP) address of the network scanner via a user interface provided by the at least one computer; detecting the network scanner using the input IP address of the network scanner in the at least one computer; transmitting a uniform resource locator (URL) of the at least one computer to the network scanner using the HTTP server module; receiving scanned data from the network scanner using the URL; and periodically transmitting at predetermined intervals of time user information and the URL to the network scanner from each of the plurality of computers.