Enabling and disabling features of a imaging system over a common communication channel

摘要

A technique for downloading or activating or deactivating selected machine features (Figs 3-8) from a remote central station (157) that is connected to the remote machine (30) by a communication channel (175). Also, the invention includes identifying (Fig.9) features to be downloaded and then activated at a given site and communicating the data relative to the identified features to the remote machine.