Patents by Inventor Paul Rulli

Paul Rulli 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).

  • Job comment/operator messages for an electronic reprographic printing system
    Patent number: 5130806
    Abstract: An electronic reprographic printing system that allows the sending of messages with a print job from remote user workstations to a central reprographic printing machine. The messages can be displayed on a User Interface, such as a video monitor, and additionally printed on a break page of the print job. Also disclosed is a system for sending messages that is capable of faulting a print job until the reprographic system operator acknowledges receipt of the message. The various messages can instruct the system operator to use a particular medium for the print job, for example, or instruct the system operator how to finish (bind, wrap, etc.) a print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Reed, Patricia Prokop, Nancy K. M. Rees, Ernie L. Legg, Thomas Zell, Paul Rulli, Elizabeth Bennett, Harriet Carter, Randy Hube, Paul J. Valliere