Patents by Inventor David L. Geering

David L. Geering has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11138484
    Abstract: A system for automatically replacing selected content within an electronic document is disclosed. The system includes the superimposition of a geometric shape (e.g. a rectangle) over textual or other human-readable content within an ordinary word processing document that is to be replaced with a barcode or other machine-readable content. Thereafter, a print driver automatically detects the human-readable content underlying the detected geometric shape and converts that into the desired barcode type. Then, the document may be output physically or electronically, now including the barcode in place of the human-readable content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: David L. Geering
  • Publication number: 20200265278
    Abstract: A system for automatically replacing selected content within an electronic document is disclosed. The system includes the superimposition of a geometric shape (e.g. a rectangle) over textual or other human-readable content within an ordinary word processing document that is to be replaced with a barcode or other machine-readable content. Thereafter, a print driver automatically detects the human-readable content underlying the detected geometric shape and converts that into the desired barcode type. Then, the document may be output physically or electronically, now including the barcode in place of the human-readable content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: David L. Geering
  • Publication number: 20200265279
    Abstract: A system for automatically replacing selected content within an electronic document is disclosed. The system includes the superimposition of a geometric shape (e.g. a rectangle) over textual or other human-readable content within an ordinary word processing document that is to be replaced with a barcode or other machine-readable content. Thereafter, a print driver automatically detects the human-readable content underlying the detected geometric shape and converts that into the desired barcode type. Then, the document may be output physically or electronically, now including the barcode in place of the human-readable content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: David L. Geering
  • Patent number: 10013224
    Abstract: There is disclosed methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media for printing and encoding RFID (radio frequency identification) labels. An RFID label document conforming to the Portable Document Format (PDF) is retrieved, the RFID label document including printable content and RFID encoding data embedded as metadata. The RFID encoding data is extracted from the RFID label document. Printable content of the RFID label document is displayed in a PDF viewer application. A print driver called by the PDF viewer application converts the printable content of the RFID label document into printer control language. The previously extracted RFID encoding data is incorporated into the printer control language, and the printer control language with incorporated RFID encoding data is transmitted to an RFID label printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitchell G. Marks, Chaminda Weerasinghe, David L. Geering
  • Publication number: 20160321020
    Abstract: There is disclosed methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media for printing and encoding RFID (radio frequency identification) labels. An RFID label document conforming to the Portable Document Format (PDF) is retrieved, the RFID label document including printable content and RFID encoding data embedded as metadata. The RFID encoding data is extracted from the RFID label document. Printable content of the RFID label document is displayed in a PDF viewer application. A print driver called by the PDF viewer application converts the printable content of the RFID label document into printer control language. The previously extracted RFID encoding data is incorporated into the printer control language, and the printer control language with incorporated RFID encoding data is transmitted to an RFID label printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Mitchell G. Marks, Chaminda Weerasinghe, David L. Geering
  • Patent number: 9396174
    Abstract: Inserting and using metadata within a portable document format document comprises of a portable document format writer for receiving a request to generate a portable document format document including custom metadata, generating the portable document format document in a form compliant with portable document format, the data including at least a portable document format header, at least one portable document format stream, and a portable document format catalog, inserting at least one extensible markup language identifier to the portable document format document immediately following the extensible markup language identifier, inserting at least one set of extensible markup language data to the portable document format document, as directed by the request, within the data immediately following the at least one extensible markup language identifier and before the at least one portable document format stream, and preceding the portable document format catalog, and storing the portable document format document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Natasha Alves, David L. Geering, Martin Corr, Ben Lear, Mark A. Greene
  • Patent number: 9189180
    Abstract: A converter peripheral for converting an electronic document for output by a multifunction includes a network interface for receiving the electronic document, the electronic document in a page description language unsupported by the multifunction peripheral, a processor for accessing configuration data in order to determine at least one page description language supported by the multifunction peripheral, for accessing local license data to confirm authorization to perform a conversion, and for converting the electronic document into a page description language supported by the multifunction peripheral, and an output interface for transmitting the converted electronic document to the multifunction peripheral for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: David L. Geering, Mitchell G. Marks