Patents by Inventor Tooru Nakatani
Tooru Nakatani 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).
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Patent number: 8711405Abstract: A monitoring device includes an acquiring unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit and a notification unit. The acquiring unit periodically acquires status information from a printer having a consumable. The first determination unit determines a first state transition from an occurrence state of a consumable alarm to a release state of the consumable alarm and a second state transition from the release state of the consumable alarm to the occurrence state of the consumable alarm, based on the status information. If the first state transition is determined, the second determination unit determines, based on the status information, as to whether the determined first state transition is an apparent first state transition or an actual first state transition. If the actual first state transition is determined and then the second state transition is determined, the notification unit notifies an alarm relating to the consumable.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tooru Nakatani, Hironori Niwa
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Publication number: 20120069388Abstract: A monitoring device includes an acquiring unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit and a notification unit. The acquiring unit periodically acquires status information from a printer having a consumable. The first determination unit determines a first state transition from an occurrence state of a consumable alarm to a release state of the consumable alarm and a second state transition from the release state of the consumable alarm to the occurrence state of the consumable alarm, based on the status information. If the first state transition is determined, the second determination unit determines, based on the status information, as to whether the determined first state transition is an apparent first state transition or an actual first state transition. If the actual first state transition is determined and then the second state transition is determined, the notification unit notifies an alarm relating to the consumable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tooru NAKATANI, Hironori NIWA
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Patent number: 7978355Abstract: A job scheduling device that sequentially stores jobs, for which processing requests were received from terminals, in a queue and sequentially processes the jobs held in the queue using a job execution section having a plurality of queues provided corresponding to a status of a sequential job process, a scheduling unit that schedules the jobs using the plurality of queues, wherein each job has associated job information which includes job status information, and a recovery unit that recovers the status of each of the jobs being held in the plurality of queues.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Patent number: 7884960Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Patent number: 7630092Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1999Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Publication number: 20090180142Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Publication number: 20070044101Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2006Publication date: February 22, 2007Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Patent number: 7148991Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Publication number: 20040008363Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Patent number: 6606163Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries but the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1999Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Fuju Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura
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Patent number: 6213652Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1995Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kentaro Yamada, Koji Nishiyama, Tooru Nakatani, Yoh Nakamura