Peripheral device lists

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10452568-B2
Application number	US-201515762905-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2015
Priority date	Nov 24, 2015
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to capturing a first machine-readable link via an image capture device, retrieving a first content element associated with the first machine-readable link, determining whether the first content element is related to a second content element associated with a second machine-readable link, and in response to determining that the first content element is related to the second content element associated with a second machine-readable link, retrieving the second content element.

First claim

We claim:

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
receive at a peripheral listing device, a first peripheral device entry from a user device executing a local agent, the first peripheral device entry generated by the user device and associated with a first peripheral device detected by the user device;
determine whether the first peripheral device entry is associated with at least one second peripheral device entry; and
in response to determining that the first peripheral device entry is associated with the at least one second peripheral device entry, provide a list of available peripheral devices to the user device, wherein the list of available peripheral devices comprises the first peripheral device and the at least one second peripheral device.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine whether the first peripheral device entry is associated with at least one second peripheral device entry comprise instructions to determine whether the first peripheral device is already on the list of available peripheral devices.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the instructions to determine whether the first peripheral device is already on the list of available peripheral devices comprise instructions to compare a plurality of metadata associated with the first peripheral device with a respective plurality of metadata associated with each of the peripheral devices on the list of available peripheral devices.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the instructions to determine whether the first peripheral device is already on the list of available peripheral devices comprise instructions to match at least one element of the plurality of metadata associated with the first peripheral device to at least one respective element of the respective plurality of metadata associated with the list of available peripheral devices.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of metadata comprises at least one of a unique hardware identifier and a network address.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the list of available peripheral devices comprises a third peripheral device associated with the first peripheral device and the at least one second peripheral device based on a third peripheral device entry received from a local agent associated with the third peripheral device.

7. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
detecting with a user computing device, a first peripheral device coupled to the user computing device;
providing from the user computing device, a plurality of characteristics associated with the first peripheral device to a central device agent on a peripheral listing device; and
receiving a list of other peripheral devices available to the computing device from the central device agent, wherein the list of other peripheral devices comprises at least one second peripheral device comprising a matching characteristic of the plurality of characteristics.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the list of peripheral devices comprise a list of printing devices.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the list of peripheral devices comprises a list of available features for each of the printing devices.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising providing an authentication to the central device agent.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the authentication is required to provide the plurality of characteristics to the central device agent.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the authentication is required to receive the list of other peripheral devices available to the computing device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the authentication is associated with a user of the computing device.

14. A system, comprising:
a device collection engine on a computing device to:
receive a first list of peripheral device identifiers from a local agent executing on a user device, the first list of peripheral device identifiers comprising available peripheral devices in communication with the user device,
determine whether a first identifier of the first list of peripheral device identifiers is associated with a second list of peripheral device identifiers, and
in response to determining that the first identifier of the first list of peripheral device identifiers is associated with a second list of peripheral device identifiers, add a second identifier of the first list of peripheral device identifiers to the second list of peripheral device identifiers; and

a device listing engine on the computing device to:
receive a request for a list of available peripheral devices from the user device, and
provide the second list of peripheral device identifiers to the user device.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the second list of peripheral device identifiers comprises an aggregation of a plurality of lists of peripheral device identifiers from a plurality of local agents.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Development Co

Inventors

• Simpson Shell S
• Blair Timothy P

Classifications

• H04N1/00474

  outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print · CPC title

• G06F3/1231

  Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification · CPC title

• G06F3/1226

  Discovery of devices having required properties · CPC title

• H04N1/00506

  Customising to the data to be displayed · CPC title

• G06F3/1222

  Increasing security of the print job · CPC title