Patents by Inventor Gregory Fruin

Gregory Fruin 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).

  • Printer driver interface and methods
    Patent number: 8456666
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of controlling printing of a document using a printer driver interface, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments receive a print command to print a document having a document size, display the printer driver interface, the printer driver interface including the document size, display a selectable paper output size on the printer driver interface, the selectable paper output size allowing a user to select a user-selected one of a plurality of different paper output sizes, display user-selectable scaling options on the print driver interface, the scaling options for applying scaling to an image to be printed on the user-selected one of the plurality of different paper output sizes, receive from the user the user-selected one of the paper output sizes, and control printing of the document using the user-selected one of the paper output sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David Salgado, Jeremy Griffith, Gregory Fruin, Alan K. Robertson, Richard Schwartz
  • Printer Driver Interface and Methods
    Publication number: 20090021772
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of controlling printing of a document using a printer driver interface, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments receive a print command to print a document having a document size, display the printer driver interface, the printer driver interface including the document size, display a selectable paper output size on the printer driver interface, the selectable paper output size allowing a user to select a user-selected one of a plurality of different paper output sizes, display user-selectable scaling options on the print driver interface, the scaling options for applying scaling to an image to be printed on the user-selected one of the plurality of different paper output sizes, receive from the user the user-selected one of the paper output sizes, and control printing of the document using the user-selected one of the paper output sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Salgado, Jeremy Griffith, Gregory Fruin, Alan K. Robertson, Richard Schwartz
  • METHOD AND CORRESPONDING APPARATUS FOR CREATION OF PRINT DRIVERS IN A NETWORK
    Publication number: 20080250430
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of creating drivers for use in a network, the network including computers and devices, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David Salgado, Jonathan Allan Edmonds, Matthew Fabrizi, Gregory Fruin, Alan K. Robertson, Raymond Sabbagh, Richard Schwartz, Glenn K. Smith