Patents by Inventor Eric Anthony de Beus

Eric Anthony de Beus 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).

  • Method and system of performing prepress operations using a shell document
    Patent number: 8848232
    Abstract: A method of performing prepress operations with respect to a print job may include receiving, by a prepress workflow system, a document to be processed by a workflow, and automatically generating a shell document corresponding to the received document. The shell document may include a plurality of shell pages, and each one of the plurality of shell pages may include an external reference that corresponds to one of the plurality of received pages. The method may include performing, by a processor, one or more first prepress operations on one or more of the shell pages to produce a modified shell document, performing, by the processor, one or more second prepress operations on one or more of the received pages to produce a modified received document and merging the modified received document and the modified shell document to form a merged document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Anthony de Beus
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PERFORMING PREPRESS OPERATIONS USING A SHELL DOCUMENT
    Publication number: 20100079789
    Abstract: A method of performing prepress operations with respect to a print job may include receiving, by a prepress workflow system, a document to be processed by a workflow, and automatically generating a shell document corresponding to the received document. The shell document may include a plurality of shell pages, and each one of the plurality of shell pages may include an external reference that corresponds to one of the plurality of received pages. The method may include performing, by a processor, one or more first prepress operations on one or more of the shell pages to produce a modified shell document, performing, by the processor, one or more second prepress operations on one or more of the received pages to produce a modified received document and merging the modified received document and the modified shell document to form a merged document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eric Anthony de Beus