Patents by Inventor John A Moore

John A Moore 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).

  • Publication number: 20240306684
    Abstract: A method of making a condiment is provided including slicing a pepper into pepper halves, placing the pepper halves onto a tray, dehydrating the pepper halves, placing the pepper halves within a container, and crushing the pepper halves within the container using a crushing object. The pepper is sliced lengthwise from a first end to a second end, dividing the pepper into the first half along a first sliced surface of the first half and a second sliced surface of the second half. The pepper halves are placed in the tray such that the first sliced surface and the second sliced surface are positioned upward relative to the tray. The pepper fragments are crushed such that the container includes pepper fragments smaller than 0.25 inches and pepper fragments which are larger than 0.25 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: John A, Moore, JR.
  • Patent number: 9233399
    Abstract: A system and method for generating separations between jobs in a batch of scanned pages are provided. The method includes, for each of a set of jobs, capturing an image of a representative page of the job. Thereafter, the method includes scanning the set of jobs as a batch to generate a set of scanned pages. The captured images are compared with scanned pages in the set of scanned pages to identify, for at least one captured image, a respective scanned page which matches the captured image. At least one separator is generated for separating the set of scanned pages based on a location of the matching scanned page(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Francois Ragnet, Eric Cheminot, Yves Hoppenot
  • Patent number: 9088674
    Abstract: Methods and systems receive a scan job into a computerized device from an optical scanning device. The computerized device is operatively connected to the optical scanning device. These methods and systems process, using the computerized device, the scan job. Further, such methods and systems use the computerized device to cause a printing device operatively connected to the optical scanning device to print a scan confirmation sheet. The scan confirmation sheet indicates that the computerized device received the scan job. The scan confirmation sheet comprises computer readable markings. The computerized device can receive a transmission of the computer readable markings from a second device separate from the computerized device. In response to receiving the transmission of the computer readable markings printed on the scan confirmation sheet, the computerized device can provide the status of the processing of the scan job, and/or alter or cancel the processing of the scan job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Donald M. Pangrazio, III
  • Patent number: 8902451
    Abstract: A method and system for processing a print stream are provided. The methodology includes generating at least one copy of the print stream and transmitting a first copy of the at least one copy of the print stream to a sub-system of said computer system. The methodology further includes transmitting a second copy of the at least one copy of the print stream to a print driver and processing the second copy of the printer stream by the designated print driver. The methodology further includes transmitting the processed second copy to the at least one printer for generating a printout corresponding to the print stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Matthew D. Ruffell
  • Patent number: 8896871
    Abstract: Methods and systems execute a first scan job using a scanner device to produce a first electronic scan item, and automatically transmit the first electronic scan item from the scanner device to a computerized device over a network. Exemplary methods herein start execution of a second scan job immediately after executing the first scan job (without waiting for confirmation that the computerized device received the first scan job) using the scanner device to produce a second electronic scan item. Further, such methods automatically generate a first scan receipt confirmation using the computerized device and automatically transmit the first scan receipt confirmation from the computerized device to at least one receiving device (e.g., the scanner device) over the network. Such exemplary methods can therefore automatically display the first scan receipt confirmation (on a graphic user interface of the at least one receiving device) after starting execution of the second scan job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: XEROX Corporation
    Inventors: Donald M. Pangrazio, III, John A. Moore
  • Publication number: 20140307285
    Abstract: Methods and systems receive a scan job into a computerized device from an optical scanning device. The computerized device is operatively connected to the optical scanning device. These methods and systems process, using the computerized device, the scan job. Further, such methods and systems use the computerized device to cause a printing device operatively connected to the optical scanning device to print a scan confirmation sheet. The scan confirmation sheet indicates that the computerized device received the scan job. The scan confirmation sheet comprises computer readable markings. The computerized device can receive a transmission of the computer readable markings from a second device separate from the computerized device. In response to receiving the transmission of the computer readable markings printed on the scan confirmation sheet, the computerized device can provide the status of the processing of the scan job, and/or alter or cancel the processing of the scan job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: XEROX Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Donald M. Pangrazio, III
  • Publication number: 20140268212
    Abstract: Methods and systems execute a first scan job using a scanner device to produce a first electronic scan item, and automatically transmit the first electronic scan item from the scanner device to a computerized device over a network. Exemplary methods herein start execution of a second scan job immediately after executing the first scan job (without waiting for confirmation that the computerized device received the first scan job) using the scanner device to produce a second electronic scan item. Further, such methods automatically generate a first scan receipt confirmation using the computerized device and automatically transmit the first scan receipt confirmation from the computerized device to at least one receiving device (e.g., the scanner device) over the network. Such exemplary methods can therefore automatically display the first scan receipt confirmation (on a graphic user interface of the at least one receiving device) after starting execution of the second scan job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Donald M. Pangrazio, III, John A. Moore
  • Patent number: 8792141
    Abstract: A system and methods are disclosed to automatically extract data from documents, such as scanned paper forms and/or digital forms that need to be pre-configured to understand a layout for the forms to be processed. The system extracts data from the form definition at a two dimensional barcode and dynamically configures a workflow with services for extracting desired user filled information from the data fields present on the form. Support for a re-flowable service is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Francois Ragnet
  • Patent number: 8743403
    Abstract: A method for archiving is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first image file corresponding to an original print using a first printer placed at a first location. Further, the first image file is transmitted from the first location to a second printer placed at a second location. The method further includes generating a duplicate print corresponding to the first image file at the second location. Further, a quality of the first image file is compared with a quality of the duplicate print, and the duplicate print is archived based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: John A Moore
  • Patent number: 8600165
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for mark recognition in an image of an original document are provided. The method/system takes as input an image of an original document in which at least one designated field is provided for accepting a mark applied by a user (which may or may not have been marked). A region of interest (RoI) is extracted from the image, roughly corresponding to the designated field. A center of gravity (CoG) of the RoI is determined, based on a distribution of black pixels in the RoI. Thereafter, for one or more iterations, the RoI is partitioned into sub-RoIs, based on the determined CoG, where at a subsequent iteration, sub-RoIs generated at the prior iteration serve as the RoI partitioned. Data is extracted from the RoI and sub-RoIs at one or more of the iterations, which allows a representation of the entire RoI to be generated which is useful in classifying the designated field, e.g., as positive (marked) or negative (not marked).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas Raphaël Saubat, Francois Ragnet, Philippe Rerole, Eric H. Cheminot, John A. Moore
  • Publication number: 20130301078
    Abstract: A method for archiving is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first image file corresponding to an original print using a first printer placed at a first location. Further, the first image file is transmitted from the first location to a second printer placed at a second location. The method further includes generating a duplicate print corresponding to the first image file at the second location. Further, a quality of the first image file is compared with a quality of the duplicate print, and the duplicate print is archived based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: John A. Moore
  • Patent number: 8473454
    Abstract: A document processing method includes receiving, at a server with a network interface, electronic documents from a user. The server includes a software application adapted to recognize a class of electronic documents to which the electronic documents belong. The method also includes processing the electronic documents received from the user to extract data therefrom based on a recognition that the electronic documents belong to the class of electronic documents. The extracted data corresponds to a service being provided to the user. The method also includes automatically mapping the extracted data from the processed electronic documents to a data repository on the server. The data repository is accessible by the user through the network interface. The method also includes electronically generating output data based on the mapped data from the data repository to the user. The output data corresponds to the service being provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene Stephen Evanitsky, John A. Moore, Matthew Dylan Coene, Steve Schlonski, Wilma Wandersleben Chlebove
  • Patent number: 8453922
    Abstract: A method for separating and categorizing documents includes receiving a scanned batch of documents. The batch includes scanned documents to which document separator stamps have been applied before scanning. Each stamp includes machine recognizable patterns applied on a same page of a document, spaced by a designated field for receiving a user-applied category code. The scanned batch of documents is processed to identify pages that contain a document separator, including identifying at least one of two spaced patterns. For a document page for which a document separator is identified, the the corresponding designated field is located and the category code associated with the designated field identified. The document containing the is separated from other documents in the batch based the identified separator and a document category is assigned to the document, based on the identified category code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Ragnet, John A. Moore, Nicolas Raphaël Saubat, Eric H. Cheminot, Thierry Lehoux
  • Patent number: 8437027
    Abstract: A device management system and method for tracking bypass of a print governance policy. A print control agent application can be configured with a set of predefined print governance policies in order to manage a rendering job activity. The print control agent application can pass, confirm and/or reject the rendering job based on the print governance policies. The rendering job activity that bypasses the print governance policies based on a policy violation approach can be tracked and measured utilizing a set of tracking algorithms in order to generate a tracked data. A bypass report can be visually generated based on the tracked data in order to analyze the policy violation and its frequency of occurrence thereby improving compliance with the rendering policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Harpreet S. Kohli
  • Publication number: 20120314954
    Abstract: A system and methods are disclosed to automatically extract data from documents, such as scanned paper forms and/or digital forms that need to be pre-configured to understand a layout for the forms to be processed. The system extracts data from the form definition at a two dimensional barcode and dynamically configures a workflow with services for extracting desired user filled information from the data fields present on the form. Support for a re-flowable service is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Francois Ragnet
  • Publication number: 20120127540
    Abstract: A system and method for generating separations between jobs in a batch of scanned pages are provided. The method includes, for each of a set of jobs, capturing an image of a representative page of the job. Thereafter, the method includes scanning the set of jobs as a batch to generate a set of scanned pages. The captured images are compared with scanned pages in the set of scanned pages to identify, for at least one captured image, a respective scanned page which matches the captured image. At least one separator is generated for separating the set of scanned pages based on a location of the matching scanned page(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Francois Ragnet, Eric Cheminot, Yves Hoppenot
  • Patent number: 8185962
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions including instructions that when executed by a processor enable a service provider to track and enforce policy requirements associated with a provided service of the service provider. The application software configured to provide notification of the policy requirements and to trigger an intentional degradation of the provided service as a function of time when a user fails to comply with at least one of the policy requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: John A. Moore
  • Patent number: 8179543
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method for capturing fingerprint data in an ordered sequence and using the captured sequence to configure a complex multi-function print system device to a set of device specific settings to perform intended workflow processes. Each finger has a unique associated code. A code sequence is associated with each stored set of settings. A user desiring to configure the device scans their fingerprints in a predefined ordered sequence. Settings associated with the entered sequence are retrieved and displayed for user approval. Thereafter, the complex print system device can be easily configured to the displayed settings. Other embodiments are additionally disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: John A. Moore
  • Patent number: 8175377
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically training a document imaging classification and extraction system that switches between a manual mode and an automatic mode based on constant monitoring. A specialized sub-system monitors and records a user interaction with the classification system during the initial manual mode and, in parallel, develops and tests a user configuration with respect to an automated processing engine. The system is capable of being shifted to the automatic mode if a desired acceptability threshold is attained and the document can then be processed automatically. Furthermore, a user can interact with the classification system if the automatic mode fails. Information concerning exception handling can be entered into a training database for continual refinement of the classification and extraction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Matthew Coene
  • Publication number: 20120092699
    Abstract: A device management system and method for tracking bypass of a print governance policy. A print control agent application can be configured with a set of predefined print governance policies in order to manage a rendering job activity. The print control agent application can pass, confirm and/or reject the rendering job based on the print governance policies. The rendering job activity that bypasses the print governance policies based on a policy violation approach can be tracked and measured utilizing a set of tracking algorithms in order to generate a tracked data. A bypass report can be visually generated based on the tracked data in order to analyze the policy violation and its frequency of occurrence thereby improving compliance with the rendering policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Moore, Harpreet S. Kohli