ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,426, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Communication with additional function provision server through proxy server" was invented by Yeonjung Lim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Giwon Seo (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyeongju Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming apparatus includes a communications unit to communicate with an additional function provision server, a memory to store information regarding an interface through which the additional function provision server is made accessible to provide an additional function, and a process...