Patents Represented by Attorney Luis M. Ortiz
  • Patent number: 8326551
    Abstract: A method and system for incorporating electronic signature analysis in a low voltage power supply to centrally monitor current consumption is disclosed. The electrical loads powered by the low voltage power supply can be tested individually via an automatic test routine by measuring and scaling of current through a differential amplifier. The current consumption of each electrical load can be measured by analyzing a “delta” in the current draw of each electrical load's ON and OFF condition. This value can be compared against a stored table of high and low limits for each electrical load. If a load's current is outside the limits, it will be logged for repairs. A current sensing device can be inserted in series with the output(s) of the low voltage power supply, while in test mode, to allow the automatic test routine to run, and then be shorted out for normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Randall Brian Wirt
  • Patent number: 8312114
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing a network compatible device utilizing an Internet based beacon technology. A compatible host application can be installed on a client device and registered with a network by providing a user credential and a qualifying descriptor. The network compatible device can be configured to have access with the network in order to extract the information associated with the user accessing the compatible device. A list of users with the matching qualifying descriptor can then be displayed at a user interface associated with the compatible device. Upon authentication, the compatible device and the compatible host application installed on the client device can be connected and the network address associated with the compatible device and the client device can be accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan Allen Edmonds
  • Patent number: 8310700
    Abstract: A print shop consolidation system including a print shop consolidation management system with an application is provided. The application is used to (1) evaluate, with a set of information, an operational capacity of a first print shop to process both a first group of print jobs and a second group of print jobs, (2) evaluate, with the set of information, an operational capacity of the second print shop to process both the first and second groups of print jobs, and (3) use the evaluations of (1) and (2) to consolidate processing of the first and second groups of print jobs at one of first and second print shops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Sudhendu Rai, Jie Lin
  • Patent number: 8289588
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for verifying content of partially printed purge sheets of confidential documents just after shredding the purge sheets but before the individual strands become separated and disassociated is disclosed. The purge sheet can be passed through a single nip paper transport to a shredder and then to a scanner in order to verify the content of the purge sheets. The scanned document can also be stored on a DFE (digital front end) disk, which provides visual documentation of, purge sheet destruction and can be utilized for later reconciliation. The individual strands of the purge sheet(s) can be separated and disassociated to a container in order to ensure destruction. A small electronic controller board associated with the scanner provides function control and communications to the DFE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: David M. Gurak
  • Patent number: 8290260
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a remote custom rendering profile and automatically delivering and installing the resulting remote custom profile into a digital front end (DFE) in order to perform color management for a rendering device. A color test rendering job comprising color swatches with a number of additional information can be forwarded to a remote service provider and the test job can be scanned and the custom rendering profile can be generated utilizing a profiler application. The resultant rendering profile can then be electronically transferred back to the rendering device based on the additional information and can be installed without user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael E. Farrell, Javier A. Morales
  • Patent number: 8269620
    Abstract: An alarm trend summary display system and method can utilize an alarm trend list that works together with an alarm summary list. A set of rows in the alarm trend list can be organized in a top-to-bottom manner. A set of alarm indicators within each row in the alarm trend list can be arranged in a right-to-left horizontal arrangement. The set of alarm indicators can be aligned with most recent alarms appearing on a right side of the alarm trend list. The specific alarm indicators can be selected in the alarm trend list, so that a corresponding item can be highlighted in the alarm summary list, if the alarms are active. Hence, the system and method can allow an operator to see when alarms occur, their sequence, relations and priority, which aid the operators cope with inevitable alarm floods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell Internatonal Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Bullemer, Dal Vernon C. Reising, Mischa Tolsma
  • Patent number: 8249735
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically identifying an existing workflow to manufacture a given product type. A workflow description of a workflow can be transformed into a product type description utilizing particular facts associated with the workflow. An inferred product type description can then be at least one product type among a group of product type descriptions representing known product types. A mapping can then be derived of the workflow with respect to product types, in response to comparing the inferred product type description to the product type description(s) among product type descriptions representing known product types. The workflow description can be converted into the product type description utilizing a rule-based expert system. The particular facts can be one or more of the following: processing steps, sequences of processing steps, types of operations to be performed, and outputs produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk J. Ocke, Michael David Shepherd, Dale Ellen Gaucus
  • Patent number: 8249830
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically determining an optimal re-training interval for a fault diagnoser based on online monitoring of the performance of a classifier are disclosed. The classifier generates a soft measure of membership in association with a class based on a training data. The output of the classifier can be utilized to assign a label to new data and then the members associated with each class can be clustered into one or more core members and potential outliers. A statistical measure can be utilized to determine if the distribution of the outliers is sufficiently different than the core members after enough outliers have been accumulated. If the outliers are different with respect to the core members, then the diagnoser can be re-trained; otherwise, the output of the classifier can be fed to the fault diagnoser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Rajinderjeet Singh Minhas, Vishal Monga, Wencheng Wu, Divyanshu Vats
  • Patent number: 8233180
    Abstract: A method automatically determines a workflow for a print job via analysis of PDF documents is disclosed. A job synopsis comprising hashed information of a historical print job's document content along with a PDF document-level and object-level metadata and information about workflow nodes and parameters can be stored in a database. The job synopsis of a new incoming print job can then be compared to the historical print job synopses database. If the new print job matches the historical print job within a certain predefined similarity limit, then workflow and parameter information associated with the historical job can be utilized to augment an initial workflow for the incoming print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael David Shepherd, Vishal Monga, Dale Ellen Gaucas
  • Patent number: 8221098
    Abstract: A radial turbomolecular pump comprising an electrostatically levitated rotor with a high compression ratio and pump speed at a chip-scale level. The levitated rotor can be sandwiched between a stator plate and a driver and multiple concentric rings of microblades can be fabricated on the rotor plate and the stator plate. The center portions of the driver and the base plate include concentric ring electrodes for rotor levitation by electrostatic forces. The space between two concentric rings of microblades forms a groove that is wide enough to receive the microblades from the opposing disk. The stator disk can be fixed and the rotor disk spins such that the rotor microblades move tangentially relative to the stator microblades. The microblades can be tilted at an angle from the tangent, facilitating momentum transfer to gas molecules in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Alex Gu
  • Patent number: 8208152
    Abstract: Methods and systems for permitting a rendering device, such as a printer, to be automatically configured at the time of device driver installation, regardless of the means utilized to install the driver are disclosed. In general, a device driver (e.g., a printer driver) is associated with the rendering device. The device driver includes a driver default configuration. The driver default configuration can be initially set in the rendering device via an embedded network server (e.g., an embedded web server) in the rendering device. The driver installer can then query the driver default configuration as set on the rendering device. The driver can then be automatically adjusted prior to the installation of the driver, in response to querying the driver default configuration by the driver installer. The rendering device can be implemented as a printer, a scanner, a multi-function device, a photocopy machine, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mark L. Hanson, David M. Chapin, Jonathan Edmonds, Patrick Kevin Sheehan
  • Patent number: 8199226
    Abstract: Methods and systems for capturing an image of a moving subject employ a camera image sensor that captures a blurred image of a moving subject. In-capture positions of the moving object are also determined using a high frame rate camera or other motion sensing device. The PSF for controlling modulation of the light hitting the camera image is successively updated by selecting, from among a plurality of pre-computed invertible PSFs, a pre-computed invertible PSFs for each estimated motion of the moving object. Light hitting the camera image sensor is modulated in capture phase according to one or more of the updated pre-computed invertible PSFs such that the captured blurred image is invertible. The resulting invertible blurred image can be de-blurred using the selected known PSFs to provide a substantially sharp image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Scott McCloskey
  • Patent number: 8164762
    Abstract: A method for automatically magnifying a copy job to result in a copied text that is not smaller than a user specified minimum size. An original document is automatically scanned and an analysis performed to determine, the smallest text size within the original document. A magnification for rendering the document can then be set. Media size can then be selected appropriately, and an image magnification ratio and output document size selections optimized to create a text size in the resulting rendering document which are as close as possible to a user's minimum text size selection when the user selected minimum text size cannot be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Ronney John Rizzo
  • Patent number: 8149439
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of automatically aggregating multiple print jobs. The method includes: storing, in memory, a first print job group complying with a first set of print job aggregation criteria and a second print job group complying with a second set of print job aggregation criteria. A print job is received and at least a part of the received print job is aggregated with the first print job group to form a first aggregated print job set if the received print job complies with the first set of print job aggregation criteria and one of a set of release criteria is met. At least a part of the received print job is aggregated with the second print job group to form a second aggregated print job set if the received print job complies with the second set of print job aggregation criteria and one of a set of release criteria is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Javier A Morales, Michael E Farrell
  • Patent number: 8125486
    Abstract: Images and video can be produced by compositing or alpha blending a group of image layers or video layers. Increasing resolution or the number of layers results in increased computational demands. As such, the available computational resources limit the images and videos that can be produced. A computational architecture in which the image layers are packetized and streamed through processors can be easily scaled so to handle many image layers and high resolutions. The image layers are packetized to produce packet streams. The packets in the streams are received, placed in queues, and processed. For alpha blending, ingress queues receive the packetized image layers which are then z sorted and sent to egress queues. The egress queue packets are alpha blended to produce an output image or video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: David H. DuBois, Andrew J. DuBois, Carolyn Connor Davenport
  • Patent number: 8098900
    Abstract: A device for detecting the presence of human skin including an illuminator source for providing an IR band at a predetermined frequency known as a blue LED. The IR band frequency ranges from about 400 nanometers (nm) to about 500 nm, and preferably from about 450 nm to about 485 nm. Most preferred is a blue LED with a frequency of about 468 nm. The band is reflected off a target and received by a sensor such as a photo detector. The value for human skin is compared to the signal detected. Other materials that have been used to spoof detectors have different values and thus are distinguished from human skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Gary E. Determan, David J. Wunderlin
  • Patent number: 8089340
    Abstract: A vehicle screening system for screening vehicles and occupants for entrance to a secured facility is disclosed. The system can include a processor and an interface that communicates with the processor, wherein the interface displays identification information extracted from a vehicle occupant associated with a vehicle for processing by the processor. Additionally, a plurality of controls are associated with the interface and the processor, wherein the plurality of controls facilitates the handling and management of the information extracted from the vehicle occupant to either permit or deny the vehicle occupant and the vehicle entry to a secured facility through a security gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Edward L. Cochran, Jeffrey M. Rye, Bruce W. Anderson, Thomas R. Markham
  • Patent number: 8001237
    Abstract: A precision data capture recorder/security device non-intrusively and precisely captures and records information from computerized input devices (e.g., computer keyboards and mouses). Information collected by a data capture recorder co-located with a client can be precisely date and time tag user input to a user interface (e.g., keyboard) and transmitted to a base collection station for archiving and analysis. Archived information provides accurate history logs for regulatory audit compliance, data security, and system administrative troubleshooting. Analysis can help determine whether user data input patterns at the user interface are authorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Inventor: Young Yee
  • Patent number: 7996181
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring a substrate edge signal for image sensor phasing. An intermediate transfer substrate edge signal can be effectively mapped by a substrate edge sensor and recorded for at least one complete revolution. A substrate edge signal from an inter-document zone sampled from any region of a substrate in runtime by a process sensor can also be recorded. A comparison or cross-correlation can be applied between the bare intermediate transfer substrate edge signal and the substrate edge signal sensed in the inter-document zone. A cross-correlation algorithm returns a maximum peak value when the two signals are registered in-phase with one another. This information can then be used to register the bare belt process sensor signal and the process sensor signal over the region of interest in-phase with one another. A flat-fielding algorithm can also be applied to the phase-aligned process sensor data to remove artifacts and compensate for substrate (e.g., belt) induced non-uniformities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Kozitsky, Aaron Michael Burry, Alex Scott Brougham
  • Patent number: 7949277
    Abstract: Reprographic device provides collated and uncollated subset finishing selections at the local Graphical User Interface to allow the user to program different types of finishing within a single job to construct mixed subset finished output. Subset finishing provides a user with the ability to select different finishing options, stapling/folding/offset/hole-punching to a portion of a larger job. Print jobs can make use of software based solutions to create custom print subset finishing. Methods allow different finishing options to be applied to portions of a larger collated or uncollated job from the local GUI. A new group of subset programming attributes can be made available on the local UI. A user can then construct a mixed subset job of both print and scanned images and apply custom finishing operations on each subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Wilbert D. Douglas