Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett-packard Company

Matt Howell

Gary M Peter

Shell Sterling Simpson

Robert John Madril, Jr

Richard Detweiler

Mark E Hodges

Ernest F Covelli

Steven Kolstad

A computing system including a printer capable of retaining print jobs, a first computer and a second computer. The first computer is capable of transmitting a print job to the printer that causes the printer to retain the job. The first computer is also operable to cause the second computer to store a record of the job. A user of the first computer can later retrieve this record in order to identify the job. The user can also interact with the first computer to re-print the job.

Printing retained print jobs

A computing system including a computer and a printer. The computer is operable to transmit a print job to the printer that cases the printer to retain the job. The computer is further operable to record a record of the job. The record includes an identifier of the job and an identifier of the printer. The user can later retrieve and display the job ID and request that the job be printed. The computer responds by causing the printer to print the job.

System and method for printing retained print jobs

A system for an interceptor client is utilized to improve the reliability of data transfer between devices on a network. In particular, the interceptor client may be configured to monitor transactions between a SNMP manager application and a SNMP application. The interceptor client may be further configured to monitor and to identify a 'Get' command requesting multiple object identifiers (OIDs), e.g., OID.a, OID.b, . . . , OID.n, from a destination agent. The interceptor client may be further configured to preprocess the requested OIDs to the nearest possible previous OIDs, i.e., OID.a&#x2212;1, OID.b&#x2212;1, . . . , OID.n&#x2212;1. The interceptor client may be further configured format the requested 'Get' command as a &#x201c;Get-Next&#x201d; command requesting the modified OIDs from the destination agent. &#x201c;Get-Next&#x201d; command will always retrieve the next value in the tree of the MIB, regardless of whether or not a valid OID was specified.

Reliability and performance of SNMP status through protocol with reliability limitations

A method for establishing two-way communications between a host system and a device when the address of the device is initially unknown. The host system submits a job to a device with the job including address and other information required for the device to respond with the device's address. Once the host system has the device address, the host system and the device can establish bi-directional communications. In a print job, a print job language (PJL) command known as SOCKETPING is used to transmit the information between a print client and a printer. The SOCKETPING command includes fields for host system address family, protocol, address, and port as well as extensions to define job status reporting parameters. The printer responds to the SOCKETPING command with the necessary address information for the printer and job status reports as specified in the SOCKETPING extensions.

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Boise, ID, United States of America

Matt Howell