Web/cloud hosted publish and subscribe service

摘要

A subscription request is received from a user into a graphic user interface of a printing device to subscribe to a subject which is administered and published by a network hosted service. The printing device forwards the subscription request to a computerized device connected to the printing device through a computerized network. The computerized device is connected to a plurality of different printing devices. The printing device receives a printer-specific publication from the computerized device over the computerized network in response to the subscription request. The method stores the printer-specific publication within computer-readable memory of the printing device. The method may or may not receive a command from a user through the graphic user interfact of the printing device before the printing device acts upon the specific publication (subject) received from the publishing device.