DISTRIBUTED PRIMARY DEVICE DATA COLLECTOR WITH FAILOVER OPERATION

摘要

A network document processing device includes an embedded controller. The controller monitors one or more document processing devices occurring on the device. The controller is further operable to probe one or more networked document processing devices to determine if it or they are operable to monitoring other network document processing devices. If not, the controller suitably undertakes monitoring of some or all of the networked devices. This monitoring may be concluded when another document processing device becomes active. Multiple document processing devices may also share all or part of monitoring of document processing devices for redundancy, load sharing or integrity checking

主权项

1. A document processing device comprising:
an embedded controller including a processor and a memory in data communication with the processor, the memory operable for storage of data and instructions; a network interface configured for data communication with a plurality of networked document processing devices via an associated network; and a monitor configured to monitor internal document processing operations completed by the document processing device, wherein the memory is further configured for storing identity data representative of at least a second networked document processing device configured for processing of device operation data for the plurality of networked document processing devices, and wherein the embedded controller is configured to
generate internal device operation data in accordance with an output of the monitor,receive, via the network interface, networked device operation data corresponding to associated document processing operations from at least a second document processing device of the plurality of networked document processing devices,initiate a probe, via the network interface, to the second networked document processing device in accordance with the identity data to determine whether the second networked document processing device is operational for processing of device operation data from the plurality of networked document processing devices, andprocess internal and networked device operation data when the probe indicates that the second networked document processing device is not operational for processing thereof.