Patents by Inventor Darren E. Binder

Darren E. Binder 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).

  • Printing apparatus and method for monochrome mode and color mode switching
    Patent number: 6865355
    Abstract: A printing method for printing of a print job by a printing apparatus having a monochrome mode and a full-color mode. The method may include examining a portion of the print job to determine whether the portion includes a color page, and if the portion includes a color page, scheduling printing of a first page of the portion and one or more subsequent pages of the print job in a full-color mode, irrespective of the color content of the one or more subsequent pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Theresa A. Burkes, John M. Bagley, Jr., Darryl Richter, Scott S. Lee, Darren E. Binder, Michael B. Lloyd, Lisa Johnson, Kari E. Castleberry, Mark Irwin
  • Color mode for printing
    Publication number: 20040190926
    Abstract: A printing method for printing of a print job by a printing apparatus having a monochrome mode and a full-color mode. The method may include examining a portion of the print job to determine whether the portion includes a color page, and if the portion includes a color page, scheduling printing of a first page of the portion and one or more subsequent pages of the print job in a full-color mode, irrespective of the color content of the one or more subsequent pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Theresa A. Burkes, John M. Bagley, Darryl J. Richter, Scott S. Lee, Darren E. Binder, Michael B. Lloyd, Lisa Johnson, Kari E. Castleberry, Mark Irwin
  • System and method for managing storage of data in printing devices
    Publication number: 20030202208
    Abstract: A printing device stores data associated with a print job in a memory device. The print job or portions of the print job have an associated reference count(s) indicative of whether the print job or portions of the print job are write-protected. The reference count(s) is incremented and/or decremented responsive to printing of the print job. A control system is configured to permit the print job or portions of the print job to be overwritten with new data when the reference count(s) reach a particular value indicating to the control system that the print job or portions of the print job are no longer write-protected. As a result, memory capacity for print jobs (up to twice the memory capacity of conventional printing devices) and print speed performance improvements are realized over conventional printing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Douglas J. Mellor, Darren E. Binder, David A. Walthall, Charles K. Keyes, Gregory A. Vaughn, Patrick W. Fulghum