Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gary B. Cohen
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Patent number: 7580664Abstract: A fuser stripping subsystem for use with a fusing system is provided. In one embodiment, at least one movable stripper finger is disposed adjacent a fusing assembly in a first position. Assuming a selected condition is met, the at least one movable stripper finger is moved from the first position to a second position for substantially aligning the at least one movable stripper finger with a toned image section of a print media sheet passing through a nip defined by the rolls. In another embodiment, a print media sheet with a toned image section is shifted, prior to feeding the same through the nip, so that the toned image section may be substantially aligned with at least one stripper finger. In yet another embodiment, a combination of stripper finger movement and/or image shifting may be used to obtain substantial alignment between one or more stripper fingers and an image.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Richard L. Howe
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Patent number: 7431213Abstract: A printing system including an interpreter with an interpreter program is provided. The interpreter converts each one of multiple print jobs from a job language format to a printable format for consumption by a printer. At least one of the multiple print jobs includes an identifier indicating that the at least one of the multiple print jobs includes bar code printing related information. The printing system includes a barcode font call processing program and an interpreter support system. Each one of the multiple print jobs is read by the interpreter support system and, when the interpreter support system reads the at least one of the multiple print jobs, the at least one of the multiple print jobs is processed with the barcode font call processing program so that a barcode font call, for delivery by the interpreter support system to the interpreter, is generated by the barcode font call processing program.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Srinivas Garapati, Christopher R. Klapp
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Patent number: 7433644Abstract: A photoconductor belt cleaning system is described. This system can utilize in one embodiment one cleaning brush and a cleaning blade, and in a second embodiment, two cleaning brushes, brush 1 and brush 2, with a cleaning blade. In the second embodiment, the cleaning blade is located in the system before brush 2, and adjacent to brush 1. The brushes are charged in an opposite polarity to the charge of the toner to be removed from the photoconductor belt.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2006Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Douglas Lundy, D. Clay Johnson, Bruce J. Parks, Michael Lu
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Patent number: 6738080Abstract: A document processing control system with a graphical user interface having a display is provided. The document processing system further includes a memory manager for determining whether the information of the information set is of a first type or a second type. The memory manager uses a first information processing mode to control display of the information when the information is of the first type and a second information processing mode to control display of the information when the information is of the second type.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Robert J. Dash, Donald Irwin
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Patent number: 6621941Abstract: A document processing system including a plurality of model images stored in a memory is provided. The model images are represented by a first information set with the first information set varying as a function of object-based coordinates. At least one of the plurality of model images includes a text containing region having index information intended for use in storing one or more document pages. Moreover, a query image represented as a second set of information varying as a function of object-based coordinates is provided. In practice, an image localization module corresponds the second set of information with a portion of the first set of information to obtain the text containing region, and a text extraction module extracts the index information from the text containing region to facilitate the storing of the one or more document pages.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1999Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, John C. Handley
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Patent number: 6571281Abstract: A data processing system is disclosed. The system comprising a downloading subsystem for creating a first event related entry including a first upload indicator and a second event related entry including a second upload indicator and a first uploading subsystem and a second uploading subsystem, both of which are communicatively coupled with the downloading subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael J. Nickerson
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Patent number: 6535297Abstract: An auditron system is provided for a multifunctional printing system including a printing machine with a plurality of document processing services, the auditron system includes a user interface and a programmable auditron subsystem communicating with the user interface and printing machine. The auditron subsystem is responsive to input at the user interface and the input causes the auditron subsystem to be disposed in one of a plurality of modes relative to one of the plurality of document processing services.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1999Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Darlene H. Steele, Jeffrey D. Debes, Donald J. Gusmano, Gerald A. Wedekind
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Patent number: 6504621Abstract: A queue management system for managing a queue in a printing system is provided. The printing system is provided with a first set of resources for processing jobs and a job including a second set of resources required to process the job is introduced to the printing system. Additionally, a policy indicating how resource deficient jobs are to be handled by the queue management system is provided. For the situation in which the first set of resources does not correspond with the second set of resources, so that a resource mismatch exists between the first and second resource sets, the policy is used for causing the job to be either held until a preselected condition is met or discarded.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1998Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: David L. Salgado
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Patent number: 6501485Abstract: A programmable message storage system for a multifunctional printing system is provided. The programmable message storage system includes a configurable database for listing a plurality of message identifiers, the plurality of message identifiers corresponding respectively with the plurality of messages. The plurality of code sets corresponds respectively with the plurality of message identifiers, and each code set controls a manner in which a corresponding message is displayed on the display screen. In practice, at least one of the plurality of code sets is user programmable so that, in response to user input, the at least one of the plurality of code sets is reconfigured in the database for changing the manner in which the message corresponding with the at least one of the plurality of codes sets is displayed as a function of said reconfiguring.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Robert J. Dash, Donald Irwin
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Patent number: 6353899Abstract: There is provided a fault management system for a printing system having a memory for storing a first set of attribute values and a second set of attribute values. The fault management system includes a user interface with a display screen upon which a selected one of the first set of attribute values and the second set of attribute values is displayable. The printing system further includes a system, responsive to which one of the first set of attribute values and second set of attribute values is to be displayed on said user interface display screen, for controlling display of one or both of a first set of fault related information and a second set of fault related information on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1998Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Andrew T. Martin, David S. Matthews
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Patent number: 6321232Abstract: There is provided a method for creating a geometric hash tree in a document processing system having a memory. A plurality of images are stored in the memory and organized in a database. Each image includes curve groups wherein each curve group is corresponded with a feature set. The method for creating a geometric hash tree includes the steps of: (1) associating a list of basis triples with an affine coordinate set, the basis triples and the affine coordinate set both varying as a function of the images and their corresponding curve groups; (2) storing both the affine coordinate set and the list of basis triples in the memory; (3) quantizing the affine coordinate set into a plurality of subsets; (4) assigning an order to the plurality of subsets; and (5) creating a geometric hash tree with the quantized affine coordinate set using the order from (4) such that the geometric hash tree is more compact in size than a conventional geometric hash table.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood
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Patent number: 6252681Abstract: A method is provided for a multifunctional printing system in which a plurality of jobs are placed in a queue in anticipation of processing the same. The queue, over time, receives jobs of at least a first user type and a second user type. In operation, first and second jobs of the first user type are placed in the queue. When a third job is ready for placement into the queue, a determination as to whether the third job is of the first user type or the second user type is made. If the third job is of the first user type, then it is processed subsequent to the processing of both the first and second jobs; however, if the third job is of the second user type, then the third job is processed ahead of at least the second job.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Donald J. Gusmano, David L. Salgado, Jeffrey D. Debes, Gary W. Kassmann, Kenneth J. Buck
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Patent number: 6239880Abstract: A method for processing a job, including image data and a set of attributes, in a document processing system is provided. Each attribute is corresponded with either a default value or a user set value. The document processing system further includes a user interface at which a set of default values are settable, in response to user input, to create a set of user set values, and a memory for storing at least a part of the image data of the job wherein the at least part of the image data of the job is less than all of the image data of the job. The method includes: (a) storing the at least part of the image data in the memory; (b) in response to user input, respectively changing one or more values of the set of user set values to one or more values of the set of default values; and (c) in response to the changing in (b), deleting the at least part of the image data in the memory when a selected condition is met.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1998Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael W. Barrett, Andrew T. Martin, Christie A. May, Andrea L. Carpenter, Anne E. Dewitte
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Patent number: 6151131Abstract: A method of developing a job for output with an output subsystem is provided. The method includes generating a first electronic representation of a first image at a first time, reading a subset of placemarking instructions at a second time, generating a second representation of a second image at a third time, wherein the second time is after the first time but before the third time. At a fourth time, which fourth time is after the first, second and third times, a selected function is performed relative to a third electronic representation of a third image in response to the reading of the subset of placemaking instructions.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1997Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Louis O. Pepin, David C. Robinson, Michael E. Farrell
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Patent number: 6130760Abstract: A transmission job originating station for controlling transmission of job information, based on the processing of a print job in a printing system, is provided. The control system includes a document generating subsystem for providing at least a portion of the print job to be delivered to a print machine and a user interface for programming a set of information including one or more confirmation destinations with each confirmation destination being disposed remotely of the transmission job originating station. The transmission job originating station further includes a control subsystem which, in response to the processing of at least a portion of the print job at the printing machine, reads the set of information and determines each confirmation destination, programmed with the user interface, to which the job information is to be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1998Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael J. Nickerson
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Patent number: 6078406Abstract: A transmission job originating station for controlling transmission of job information, based on the processing of a print job in a printing system, is provided. The control system includes a document generating subsystem for providing at least a portion of the print job to be delivered to a print machine and a user interface for programming a set of information including one or more confirmation destinations with each confirmation destination being disposed remotely of the transmission job originating station. The transmission job originating station further includes a control subsystem which, in response to the processing of at least a portion of the print job at the printing machine, reads the set of information and determines each confirmation destination, programmed with the user interface, to which the job information is to be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael J. Nickerson
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Patent number: 6069624Abstract: There is provided a system for a multifunctional printing system which controls a manner in which status message sets are displayed on a display screen of a corresponding user interface. As contemplated, a first service attribute designating set of information is displayed on the display screen at a first time and a second service attribute designating set of information is displayed on the display screen at a second time, with the second time being subsequent to the first time. In practice, a message manager determines whether a replacement operation has occurred with respect to the user interface such that a substantial portion of the first service attribute designating information set has been replaced visually by the second attribute designating information set. In response to determining that a replacement operation has occurred, at least a portion of a status message set currently being displayed is replaced with at least a portion of another status message set.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Robert J. Dash, Donald Irwin
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Patent number: D422983Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1991Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Stephen K. Bright, James B. Williams, Jr.
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Patent number: D422989Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1989Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Herceg, James B. Williams, Jr., Eugene L. Smith, Joseph L. Filion
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Patent number: D422990Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1991Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Stephen K. Bright, James B. Williams, Jr., Thomas M. Sheehan