Patents by Inventor Dan L Collier

Dan L Collier 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).

  • Processing a printer control command
    Patent number: 7199895
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for processing a printer-control command includes identifying when an encoded uniform-resource-locator-based printer-control command is received, decoding the encoded uniform-resource locator to identify a printer function, and performing the printer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Dan L. Collier, Jeremy Bunn, Charles Newby
  • Pay-per-use printing
    Patent number: 6854839
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an imaging device includes an ink density information gathering procedure. An ink use calculation procedure receives input from the ink density information gathering procedure, allowing the amount of ink used to be calculated. A job cost procedure calculates a print job value based on the amount of ink used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Dan L Collier, Jeremy Bunn, Charles Newby, Andrew Levy
  • Pay-per-use printing
    Publication number: 20040201634
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an imaging device includes an ink density information gathering procedure. An ink use calculation procedure receives input from the ink density information gathering procedure, allowing the amount of ink used to be calculated. A job cost procedure calculates a print job value based on the amount of ink used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Dan L. Collier, Jeremy Bunn, Charles Newby, Andrew Levy
  • Processing a printer control command
    Publication number: 20040145769
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for processing a printer-control command includes identifying when an encoded uniform-resource-locator-based printer-control command is received, decoding the encoded uniform-resource locator to identify a printer function, and performing the printer function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Dan L. Collier, Jeremy Bunn, Charles Newby
  • Device-independent apparatus and method for rendering graphical data
    Publication number: 20030051210
    Abstract: A device for generating graphical output data includes an interface for receiving raw data from a portable device and a template containing at least one graphical instruction. In addition the device includes a processor that merges the raw data with said at least one graphical instruction to obtain merged data, wherein the processor generates raster data from the merged data for transmission to a graphical output system. A method for generating graphical data includes the acts of receiving in a processor a data stream containing at least one object from a portable device and merging the object into a template to obtain merged data. In addition, the method includes generating raster data from the merged data for transmission to a graphical output system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Dan L. Collier, Jacob G. Refstrup, Scott E. Silbernagel