Patent ID: 8120793

Claim:
A method for interruptive content display on an imaging device display, said method comprising: requesting a URL via a remote server application with an imaging device (IDev) browser; displaying initial content from said URL on an IDev display using said IDev browser; detecting an error condition at said IDev; determining whether said error condition is recoverable; if said error condition is recoverable, resolving said error condition by interacting with a device management application programming interface (API) on said MFP, wherein said interacting consists of requesting a device status report, requesting job queue and history information, retrieving data security settings and configuring said MFP or rebooting said MFP, and sending an error resolution notification from a web service on said IDev to said remote server application; if said error condition is not recoverable, sending an error notification from a web service on said IDev to said remote server application; receiving an error message URL at said IDev web service from said remote server application in response to said sending an error notification or said sending an error resolution notification; pushing error message content to said IDev browser from said IDev web service using a ShowScreen method call that identifies said error message URL; terminating said displaying initial content in response to said pushing; and displaying said error message content on said IDev display with said IDev browser.