International Business Machines Corporation

Infoprintsolutions Company, LLC

Harry Reese Lewis, Jr

Joseph Stanley Czyszczewski

James Anthony Krack

Reinhard Heinrich Hohensee

David Earl Stone

Dennis Carney

Anthony Franke Stuart

Stephen Goddard Price

Ronald L Heiney

Frankie Sherwood Shook

David Joseph Shields

Roger K Debry

Michael E Haller

James T Smith

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using a resource context to access resources and source data for a transform. A transform receives a request to transform source data and calls a resource context. The resource context initializes a resource object for the transform and acquires associations to source data and resources needed by the transform. The resource context maintains the acquired associations to source data and resources in the resource object for the transform and supplies the associations to the source data and resources to the transform. The transform transforms the source data using the resources to produce output and provides the output to the resource context.

Using a resource context to access resources and source data for a transform

Systems, methods, and media for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices are disclosed. Embodiments include a system having one or more asset devices in communication with a network where each asset device has an electronic asset tag, where the electronic asset tag has contents including an asset number associated with the asset device having the electronic asset tag. The system may also include an asset tag manager in communication with the network to access the contents of the electronic asset tags of the one or more asset devices. In a further embodiment, the asset tag manager may be adapted to modify the contents of the electronic asset tags of the one or more asset devices. In another further embodiment, the asset tag manager may be adapted to reload to an asset device the contents of the electronic asset tag of the asset device.

Systems, methods, and media for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices

Systems and media for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices

A method, computer program product and print server for discovering printers connected to a print server. A print server may transmit a HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) request to every Internet Protocol (IP) address in a range of IP addresses. A response, e.g., a document such as a web page, may be received by the print server from one or more devices at one or more IP addresses in the range of IP addresses. The print server may identify one or more out of these devices that transmitted a response as printers based on analyzing the responses from the devices. The print server may obtain printer attribute information from the identified printers and update a database with the obtained printer attribute information.

Printer discovery, status and automatic addition of printer to print spooler database

Methods for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices

Provided is a method, system, and program for sending notification to an Input/Output (I/O) device comprised of multiple components of an event from an originating device that transmits data to the I/O device. The originating device detects a notification event and generates a notification message in response to the detected notification event to transmit to the I/O device. In response to receiving the notification message, the I/O device activates at least one of the multiple components. The notification message may be transmitted to the I/O device on a first port at the I/O device, where data is received at a second port at the I/O device. In response to receiving the notification message on the first port, the I/O device activates at least one of the multiple components.

Method, system, and program for transmitting notification to an input/output device

Personal identifying information is obtained from a person receiving information content via an output device and sent back to the source of the information e.g. the sender. The personal information such as that in VCARD format is entered by the person receiving the document from a smart card or similar device. The system offers confirmation to users of computer communication systems as to the identity of the recipient of information they have transmitted over the system.

Remote notification of print or fax hardcopy recipient using standard identification data

A Thin Layer Protocol.TM. adds three new data stream commands--the WOCC, WOC and END commands--to the Intelligent Printer Data Stream.TM. ('IPDS.TM.') structured page description language. The WOCC command creates a container for encapsulating a foreign print object, such as a PostScript.TM. or PCL.TM. command stream The container includes information identifying the type of object it contains. The WOC command provides the foreign print object data for the container and includes information defining the length of the object. The END command unambiguously locates the end of the container to prevent confusion of encapsulated binary data with escape sequences. Long objects are partitioned using separate WOC commands, each providing the length of its partition. The object type information enables the printer to easily invoke an appropriate language interpreter. Alternatively, the printer may use the object type and object length information to skip over an object which it does not recognize.

Thin layer protocol.TM. for printer management

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Longmont, CO, United States of America

Harry Reese Lewis, Jr