Xerox Corporation

Wendy Abbott

Kenneth B Schleede

Paul Roberts Conlon

Michael William Barrett

Khalid M Rabb

Dianne S Colelli

Christine Miyachi

Bernard Roch Heroux, Jr

Mirelsa Fontanes-Perez

David B Mensing

Keith S Watson

Yolanda R Zhesnik

Noah Ullmann

Mark Allen Sixbey

Michael Trent

James Howell

Myriam Martinez

Jefferson Spiers Tuttle

Jacob Woodworth

Stephen J Sydorowicz

Rick Born

Kristopher James Stasiw

Linh La

Kelvin Kwan

Boris Shmoys

A method of providing native scalable management of a fleet of managed devices, which includes establishing a Trust Community, which includes a sub-set of the managed devices, organizing the Trust Community, configuring one of the managed devices in the organized Trust Community as a Root Device to publish files via a file sharing function, adding the Root Device to a distribution profile stored in a database, creating or downloading files via the Root Device, and sharing the files with other devices in the organized Trust Community via the Root Device. Any devices on hold or offline are placed in a temporary working area for reorganizing. Download and install schedules are set up on a per device or a bulk basis according to policies. Files are placed into a staging area before re-distribution and checked for security, integrity, and/or completeness via checksums, digitally signed certificates, and/or internal structure checks.

Highly-scalable native fleet management

Apparatus are provided that includes a multi-function device that is configured to perform a plurality of functions relating to manipulating a document. The multi-function device can have a display configured to display interface tool for facilitating the customization of a function of the multi-function device. The interface tools allow a user to communicate with the multi-function device to enter information relating to the customized function. The custom application can be configured to be installed on the multi-function device, and the custom application is used to customize the multi-function device.

Tools and methods for customizing multi-function devices

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Wendy Abbott