International Business Machines Corporation

James Anthony Krack

Joseph Stanley Czyszczewski

Harry Reese Lewis, Jr

Reinhard Heinrich Hohensee

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

Methods for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices

A system and method of assuring the proper configuration of a peripheral device to a data processing system so that a job is not commenced unless the proper configuration is established. A unique verification number(s) corresponding to the proper configuration for the job is in the memory of the peripheral device and is available to the data processing system when it corresponds to a current configuration. The verification number(s) for the job is also available to the system from its entry into system resources. Comparison of the verification number(s) for the job from system resources to the verification number(s) indicating current configuration provide assurance of proper peripheral device setup. The invention is exampled for spot color printers used with print servers but applies to any kind of peripheral device. In a second embodiment, verification number(s) for the job from system resources is sent to the peripheral device for establishing its configuration in accordance with the number(s). Necessary alterations of print server software to implement the invention are exampled with reference to the Print Services Facility (PSF) of IBM.

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