Patents by Inventor Alcuin Allan ANDRADE

Alcuin Allan ANDRADE 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).

  • Image forming system that transmits print job to transfer destination determined out of plurality of image forming apparatuses, and image forming method
    Patent number: 11740847
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a terminal device, a management apparatus, and a plurality of image forming apparatuses. The terminal device includes a first controller that generates a print job, and transmits the print job to the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a storage queue, and a second controller that stores the print job in the storage queue upon receipt thereof, determines one of the image forming apparatuses that completes a printing operation based on the print job most rapidly, as transfer destination, on a basis of printing ability of each of the image forming apparatuses, and transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus determined as the transfer destination. The image forming apparatuses each include an image forming device, and a third controller that causes the image forming device to execute the printing operation based on the print job, upon receipt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Bernard Lo, Alcuin Allan Andrade
  • IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM THAT TRANSMITS PRINT JOB TO TRANSFER DESTINATION DETERMINED OUT OF PLURALITY OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230059211
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a terminal device, a management apparatus, and a plurality of image forming apparatuses. The terminal device includes a first controller that generates a print job, and transmits the print job to the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a storage queue, and a second controller that stores the print job in the storage queue upon receipt thereof, determines one of the image forming apparatuses that completes a printing operation based on the print job most rapidly, as transfer destination, on a basis of printing ability of each of the image forming apparatuses, and transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus determined as the transfer destination. The image forming apparatuses each include an image forming device, and a third controller that causes the image forming device to execute the printing operation based on the print job, upon receipt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Bernard LO, Alcuin Allan ANDRADE