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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2006
Soiba Mohammad, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Soiba Mohammad, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for configuring an imaging device is provided. A first imaging device may monitor communications exchanged between clients and imaging devices over a network to identify requests to process electronic documents. In response to the first imaging device either detecting a particular request, to process an electronic document, issued to a different imaging device than the first imaging device or receiving at the first imaging device the particular request to process the electronic document, the first imaging device may update its own current configuration for processing electronic documents. For example, an imaging device may update its own current configuration to reflect the most popular way in which electronic documents have been processed by imaging devices on the network.