Patents by Inventor Lynn Kirby-Mello

Lynn Kirby-Mello 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).

  • Throughput estimate based upon document complexity analysis
    Patent number: 8237962
    Abstract: A method receives a print job and analyzes the complexity of the print job to generate complexity factors. The method performs raster image processing (RIP) on the print job and records the time taken to perform the raster image processing of each page of the print job. This generates “RIP times.” In addition, the method records the size of each page of the print job to generate “page sizes.” Then the method prints the print job and records the time it took to process the print job. Then the method determines how each of the complexity factors, the RIP times, and the page sizes contributed to the time it took to process the print job. This generates “complexity factor time values.” The method prints a report of the complexity factor time values detailing how each of the complexity factors contributed to the time it took to process the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard T. Horn, Lynn Kirby-Mello
  • THROUGHPUT ESTIMATE BASED UPON DOCUMENT COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20100141984
    Abstract: A method receives a print job and analyzes the complexity of the print job to generate complexity factors. The method performs raster image processing (RIP) on the print job and records the time taken to perform the raster image processing of each page of the print job. This generates “RIP times.” In addition, the method records the size of each page of the print job to generate “page sizes.” Then the method prints the print job and records the time it took to process the print job. Then the method determines how each of the complexity factors, the RIP times, and the page sizes contributed to the time it took to process the print job. This generates “complexity factor time values.” The method prints a report of the complexity factor time values detailing how each of the complexity factors contributed to the time it took to process the print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard T. Horn, JR., Lynn Kirby-Mello