Patents by Inventor Rick R. Rothwell

Rick R. Rothwell 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).

  • Device and configuration method
    Patent number: 7730241
    Abstract: A process for configuring a computing device to operate with a peripheral device having a configuration control and that is coupled to the computing device via a network, including: detecting activation of the configuration control at the peripheral device; receiving information associated with a user of the computing device at the peripheral device; outputting information from the peripheral device dependent on the received information; and configuring the computing device to operate with the peripheral device using the outputted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven G. Henry, Rick R. Rothwell
  • Digital sending device preconfigured to use vendor-provided computer network resources to deliver electronic content
    Publication number: 20080270641
    Abstract: A digital sending device peripheral to a computer network includes a user interface to accept a physical content, a digitizer coupled to the user interface to convert the physical content into an electronic content and a transmitter coupled to the user interface and to the digitizer and preconfigured to deliver the electronic content through a vendor-provided computer network resource to a computer network destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Rick R. Rothwell, Steven G. Henry, D. Richard Young
  • Device and configuration method
    Publication number: 20080263231
    Abstract: A process for configuring a computing device to operate with a peripheral device having a configuration control and that is coupled to the computing device via a network, including: detecting activation of the configuration control at the peripheral device; receiving information associated with a user of the computing device at the peripheral device; outputting information from the peripheral device dependent on the received information; and configuring the computing device to operate with the peripheral device using the outputted information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Steven G. Henry, Rick R. Rothwell