Patents by Inventor Mark C. Mutch

Mark C. Mutch 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).

  • Patent number: 8797158
    Abstract: An emergency notification system is provided. The emergency notification system comprises an emergency notification server (206), a signage server (202), digital signage displays (208); and a data communications network (134), wherein the emergency notification server (206) is configured to communicate with the signage server (202) via the data communications network (134) and wherein the emergency notification server (206) is configured to indicate if the emergency notification system (100) is in a non-emergency state or in an emergency state, and wherein the signage server (202) serves different data to the plurality of digital signage displays (208) depending on if the state of the emergency notification system (100) is in a non-emergency state or in an emergency state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventors: Mark C. Mutch, Lloyd W. Hemphill, Donald J. Keehan, Jr., Denio A. Leone, Mark B. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20120050039
    Abstract: An emergency notification system is provided. The emergency notification system comprises an emergency notification server (206), a signage server (202), digital signage displays (208); and a data communications network (134), wherein the emergency notification server (206) is configured to communicate with the signage server (202) via the data communications network (134) and wherein the emergency notification server (206) is configured to indicate if the emergency notification system (100) is in a non-emergency state or in an emergency state, and wherein the signage server (202) serves different data to the plurality of digital signage displays (208) depending on if the state of the emergency notification system (100) is in a non-emergency state or in an emergency state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Mark C. Mutch, Lloyd W. Hemphill, Donald J. Keehan, JR., Denio A. Leone, Mark B. Thompson
  • Patent number: 4961088
    Abstract: A monitor/warranty system for electrostatographic reproducing machines in which replaceable cartridges providing a predetermined number of images are used, each cartridge having an EEPROM programmed with a cartridge identification number that when matched with a cartridge identification number in the machine enables machine operation, a cartridge replacement warning count, and a termination count at which the cartridge is disabled from further use, the EEPROM storing updated counts of the remaining number of images left on the cartridge after each print run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: W. Keith Gilliland, Christian G. Midgley, Francis W. Dana, Mark C. Mutch