Patents by Inventor Lynn M. Bell

Lynn M. Bell 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: 9513851
    Abstract: According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided systems and methods that involve providing user-selectable fonts to a printing device so that the printing device can facilitate printing of a print task. In this regard, a representative embodiment of a method and system for printing includes enabling a print file corresponding to a print task to be evaluated, and, if it is determined that a printing device to which the print task is directed is unable to process the print task without performing a font substitution, enabling acquiring of the fonts from a specific user. By using the uploaded fonts, the printing device is able to process the print task without performing a font substitution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn M. Bell, Matthew O. Scrafford, Jason C. Tsongas
  • Patent number: 8917415
    Abstract: A method for automatically scaling print jobs in an image production device network may include receiving a request to print a print job using a particular media sheet size a particular image production device, determining a size of media in one or more media trays in the particular image production device, determining if the size of the media in the requested print job matches the determined media size in one of the one or more media trays, wherein if it is determined that the size of the media in the requested print job does not match the determined media size in one of the one or more media trays, determining the media size in the one or more media trays closest to the print job media sheet size, scaling the requested print job to the determined closest media size, and printing the requested print job on the determined closest media sheet size from one of the one or more media trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew O. Scrafford, Jason C. Tsongas, Lynn M. Bell
  • Publication number: 20130063734
    Abstract: According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided systems and methods that involve providing user-selectable fonts to a printing device so that the printing device can facilitate printing of a print task. In this regard, a representative embodiment of a method and system for printing includes enabling a print file corresponding to a print task to be evaluated, and, if it is determined that a printing device to which the print task is directed is unable to process the print task without performing a font substitution, enabling acquiring of the fonts from a specific user. By using the uploaded fonts, the printing device is able to process the print task without performing a font substitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lynn M. BELL, Matthew O. Scrafford, Jason C. Tsongas
  • Publication number: 20120300225
    Abstract: A method for automatically scaling print jobs in an image production device network may include receiving a request to print a print job using a particular media sheet size a particular image production device, determining a size of media in one or more media trays in the particular image production device, determining if the size of the media in the requested print job matches the determined media size in one of the one or more media trays, wherein if it is determined that the size of the media in the requested print job does not match the determined media size in one of the one or more media trays, determining the media size in the one or more media trays closest to the print job media sheet size, scaling the requested print job to the determined closest media size, and printing the requested print job on the determined closest media sheet size from one of the one or more media trays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew O. Scrafford, Jason C. Tsongas, Lynn M. Bell