Patents by Inventor Eric Andrew Beard

Eric Andrew Beard 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: 7536115
    Abstract: A system, method, and article for sending secured data to an image forming device at a remote location. The secured data is unique to the image forming device or a specific class of image forming devices. The secured data is compared to data stored at the image forming device for verifying the identity of the image forming device. If the identity of the image forming device is verified, a setting adjustment of the image forming device is initiated based on the secured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Andrew Beard, David Ashley Brown, Bryan Scott Willett, Edward William Yohon, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7532339
    Abstract: An interface is provided between two or more self-describing devices, each having a data store, or two ongoing processes on the same device sharing a common data store. The interface includes a datastream having at least one metavariable that is indicative of at least two or more parameters associated with a device. The datastream occurs between the data store of one transmitting device to the data store or one or more receiving devices or between two or more processes that may or may not share a common data store. The metavariable references or implies a number of other variables and allows devices to effectively communication without knowledge of the underlying variables. The metavariable can be data indicative of the configuration and settings of a device or can be a command altering two or more setting of a device upon receipt of the metavariable by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Andrew Beard, Robert Jerome Borchers, Evan Glenn Goldey, Craig Anthony Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20070300060
    Abstract: A system, method, and article for sending secured data to an image forming device at a remote location. The secured data is unique to the image forming device or a specific class of image forming devices. The secured data is compared to data stored at the image forming device for verifying the identity of the image forming device. If the identity of the image forming device is verified, a setting adjustment of the image forming device is initiated based on the secured data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Andrew Beard, David Ashley Brown, Bryan Scott Willett, Edward William Yohon
  • Publication number: 20030167361
    Abstract: A system and method for manipulating the private settings of a peripheral device, where the system includes at least one host computer and a peripheral device in a communication interface. The peripheral device has a data store including setting data for public settings of the peripheral device and private settings of the peripheral device that are implicated in the public settings, and has a variable manager that is in communication with the data store of the peripheral device. The host computer transmits a data packet including one or more public settings for of the peripheral device across the communication interface and the variable manager receives the data packet and retrieves the setting data from the data store in response to receipt of the data packet. The variable manager processes the data packet and manipulates one or more of the private settings of the peripheral device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: ERIC ANDREW BEARD, ROBERT JEROME BORCHERS, EVAN GLENN GOLDEY, JOHN JEFFREY ROBERTS, CRAIG ANTHONY RUDOLPH
  • Patent number: 6615297
    Abstract: A system and method for manipulating the private settings of a peripheral device where the system includes at least one host computer and a peripheral device in a communication interface. The peripheral device has a data store including setting data for public settings of a peripheral device and private settings of the peripheral device that are implicated in the public settings, and has a variable manager that is in communication with the data store of the peripheral device. The host computer transmits a data packet including one or more public settings for of the peripheral device across the communication interface and the variable manager receives the data packet and retrieves the setting data from the data store in response to receipt of the data to packet. The variable manager processes the data packet and manipulates one or more of the private settings of the peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Andrew Beard, Robert Jerome Borchers, II, Evan Glenn Goldey, John Jeffrey Roberts, Craig Anthony Rudolph
  • Patent number: 6498611
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a virtual operator panel for a peripheral device where the system includes a peripheral device including a processor and a data store that stores public settings corresponding to private settings of the peripheral device, each public setting indicative of at least one private setting of the peripheral device. The peripheral device has a device process and a host process, or alternately, is in bidirectional communication with at least one host computer including a data store, a display and a processor. The host computer or host process selectively transmits a request to the peripheral device or device process requesting public settings of the peripheral device for the generation of a virtual operator panel for the peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Andrew Beard, Robert Jerome Borchers, II, Evan Glenn Goldey, Craig Anthony Rudolph