Gathering analytic data using print drivers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9052859-B2
Application number	US-201313788634-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 7, 2013
Priority date	Mar 7, 2013
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

Methods and systems use print drivers to automatically record identifications (IDs) of the computerized devices and applications that provided different printable items to the print drivers. The methods and systems automatically send the IDs of the computerized devices and applications that provided the different printable items to an analytics engine. The methods herein automatically produce metrics based the computerized devices and applications used to generate the different printable items using the analytics engine.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, into computerized device, instructions to print a printable item;
automatically activating a print driver on said computerized device in response to said instructions to print said printable item;
automatically recording, by said print driver, identifications of said computerized device, an application providing said printable item to said print driver, and additional information, said additional information comprising a v…

Assignees

• Xerox Corp

Inventors

• Manchala Daniel W

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1276

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1247

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q10/06

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1288

  Physics · mapped topic