Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Rodney Hofer

Laurent Pizot

Sudhindra Venkatesh Kulkarni

Nikhilesh Gargi

Rajrajat Naik

Amandeep Batra

A service discovery request is received from a printing device at a cloud server. The request includes profile information for the printing device. In response to the request, service information is provided to the printing device. The service information includes location information and an encryption scheme for retrieving a list of services available to the printing device.

Device service discovery

A plurality of printing devices are connected to a cloud server via a persistent connection. The cloud server identifies at least one inactive printing device and provides the at least one inactive printing device with non-persistent connection information via the persistent connection. A polling message is received from the at least one inactive printing device via the non-persistent connection. The cloud server indicates when the at least one inactive printing device is to return to an active state.

Printer-server connections

A printing device is registered at a cloud server and a secure connection is established with the printing device. A subscription packet is sent to the printing device. The subscription packet specifics at least one event to be reported by the printing device. A notification that indicates an occurrence of the at least one event is received from the printing device.

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