Patents by Inventor Ronald M. Rockwell
Ronald M. Rockwell 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).
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Patent number: 8194275Abstract: A class of add-on system components providing functionality of devices, management of self-help, customization and enhancement of services for devices, and remote monitoring at significantly reduced cost. It reduces the cost of UI and greatly enhances ease-of-use by realizing that the networked system can be headless and use a browser-based UI for its platform. It embeds a Device Model Agent (DMA) and connects to the Device-Centric Services platform to offer services. Additionally, it offers customized diagnostic access for customer representatives to enable self-help service actions to be performed, unifies and manages multiple access needs to several disparate data access mechanisms, and uses largely COTS PC hardware rather than customized PWBs.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael R. Furst, Loranzo Whitfield, Naveen Sharma, Ronald M. Rockwell, Tracy E. Thieret, Claude S. Fillion, Weixia Huang, Michael P. Kehoe, Arturo M. Lorenzo, Mary C. McCorkindale, Robert J. St. Jacques, Michael F. Cavanaugh, Christopher J. Regruit
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Publication number: 20120092727Abstract: A class of add-on system components providing functionality of devices, management of self-help, customization and enhancement of services for devices, and remote monitoring at significantly reduced cost. It reduces the cost of UI and greatly enhances ease-of-use by realizing that the networked system can be headless and use a browser-based UI for its platform. It embeds a Device Model Agent (DMA) and connects to the Device-Centric Services platform to offer services. Additionally, it offers customized diagnostic access for customer representatives to enable self-help service actions to be performed, unifies and manages multiple access needs to several disparate data access mechanisms, and uses largely COTS PC hardware rather than customized PWBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Michael R. Furst, Loranzo Whitfield, Naveen Sharma, Ronald M. Rockwell, Tracy E. Thieret, Claude S. Fillion, Weixia Huang, Michael P. Kehoe, Arturo M. Lorenzo, Mary C. McCorkindale, Robert J. St. Jacques, Michael F. Cavanaugh, Christopher J. Regruit
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Patent number: 8154741Abstract: A class of add-on system components providing functionality of devices, management of self-help, customization and enhancement of services for devices, and remote monitoring at significantly reduced cost. It reduces the cost of UI and greatly enhances ease-of-use by realizing that the networked system can be headless and use a browser-based UI for its platform. It embeds a Device Model Agent (DMA) and connects to the Device-Centric Services platform to offer services. Additionally, it offers customized diagnostic access for customer representatives to enable self-help service actions to be performed, unifies and manages multiple access needs to several disparate data access mechanisms, and uses largely COTS PC hardware rather than customized PWBs.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael R. Furst, Loranzo Whitfield, Naveen Sharma, Ronald M. Rockwell, Tracy E. Thieret, Claude S. Fillion, Weixia Huang, Michael P. Kehoe, Arturo M. Lorenzo, Mary C. McCorkindale, Robert J. St. Jacques, Michael F. Cavanaugh, Christopher J. Regruit
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Patent number: 7890318Abstract: A method for troubleshooting a problem with a device includes acquiring device data for the device, receiving a user's query concerning a device in a natural language, presenting possible refinements to at least a portion of the user's query for defining a problem statement, presenting candidate solutions that are associated with the defined problem statement in a knowledge base, at least one of the presentation of possible refinements and the presentation of candidate solutions being informed by device data that is linked through a diagnostic model of the device to at least one of the problem statements and candidate solutions.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Stefania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso, Aaron N. Kaplan, Frederic Roulland, Claude Roux, Tracy E. Thieret, Roger Kramer, Ronald M. Rockwell, Donald J. Gusmano
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Patent number: 7644145Abstract: A provisioning services platform automatically and remotely regulates service subscription and supplies replenishment. The platform comprises a provisioning server running a service consumer interface, an entity management module comprising information on machines usable with the platform such as electroreprographic marking machines, a policy and preferences module, and an order processing module, among others. The provisioned services include automated meter reads, automated supplies ordering, productivity reporting, assisted user self-help, remote diagnostics, and prognostics, among others.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Ronald M. Rockwell
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Publication number: 20080294423Abstract: A method for troubleshooting a problem with a device includes acquiring device data for the device, receiving a user's query concerning a device in a natural language, presenting possible refinements to at least a portion of the user's query for defining a problem statement, presenting candidate solutions that are associated with the defined problem statement in a knowledge base, at least one of the presentation of possible refinements and the presentation of candidate solutions being informed by device data that is linked through a diagnostic model of the device to at least one of the problem statements and candidate solutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Stefania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso, Aaron N. Kaplan, Frederic Roulland, Claude Roux, Tracy E. Thieret, Roger Kramer, Ronald M. Rockwell, Donald J. Gusmano
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Patent number: 6892317Abstract: By using monitoring data, feedback data, and pooling of failure data from a plurality of electronic devices, real-time failure prediction and diagnoses of electronic systems operating in a network environment can be achieved. First, the diagnostic system requests data on the state of a machine and/or its components and collections thereof as part of the machine's normal operation. Secondly, real-time processing of the data either at the machine site or elsewhere in the distributed network allows for predicting or diagnosing system failures. Having determined and/or predicted a system failure, a communication to one or more remote observers in the network allows the remote observers to view the diagnostic information and/or required action to repair the failure.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Meera Sampath, Charles P. Coleman, Tracy E. Thieret, Ronald M. Rockwell, Charles B. Duke
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Patent number: 6862414Abstract: Using a system of computer modules operatively associated with a document processing machine, banding defect analysis is accomplished by analyzing specific test patterns via image processing. The banding defects are characterized in terms of quantitative parameters based on an analysis of the banding defect. Key features are extracted from the banding defect parameters. The key features are analyzed in a diagnostic engine, to determine the possible source of the defect. The identified source is correlated to a recommended repair service procedure. The diagnostic process may be augmented by also including machine data in the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Meera Sampath, Ronald M. Rockwell, D. Rene Rasmussen, Ashok V. Godambe, Eric Jackson, Raj Minhas
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Publication number: 20040128669Abstract: A class of add-on system components providing functionality of devices, management of self-help, customization and enhancement of services for devices, and remote monitoring at significantly reduced cost. It reduces the cost of UI and greatly enhances ease-of-use by realizing that the networked system can be headless and use a browser-based UI for its platform. It embeds a Device Model Agent (DMA) and connects to the Device-Centric Services platform to offer services. Additionally, it offers customized diagnostic access for customer representatives to enable self-help service actions to be performed, unifies and manages multiple access needs to several disparate data access mechanisms, and uses largely COTS PC hardware rather than customized PWBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael R. Furst, Loranzo Whitfield, Naveen Sharma, Ronald M. Rockwell, Tracy E. Thieret, Claude S. Fillion, Weixia Huang, Michael P. Kehoe, Arturo M. Lorenzo, Mary C. McCorkindale, Robert J. St. Jacques, Michael F. Cavanaugh, Christopher J. Regruit
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Publication number: 20040125403Abstract: A distributed system allows marking devices and the like to subscribe to and run device-centric services. A device model agent allows the devices to interact with service hosts of service providers to automate supplies maintenance, user help, and services subscription and deployment. The device model agent can be embedded in the devices, can be deployed in an add-on component connected to the device, or can be run by a separate machine as a proxy. The device model agent provides a run time environment for services available to the device, but with a common interface and a common structure so that services can be written once and run in the device model agent in virtually any deployment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: Xerox Corporation.Inventors: Michael R. Furst, Ronald M. Rockwell, Naveen Sharma, Claude S. Fillion, Robert J. St. Jacques, Weixia Huang, Arturo M. Lorenzo, Mary C. McCorkindale, Michael P. Kehoe, Tracy E. Thieret
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Publication number: 20040128375Abstract: A platform allowing automated device service subscription by remote devices employs a provisioning scheme to regulate subscriptions and supplies replenishment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: Xerox Corporation.Inventor: Ronald M. Rockwell
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Publication number: 20040111699Abstract: A platform allowing automated device service subscription by remote devices employs a provisioning scheme to regulate subscriptions and supplies replenishment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Ronald M. Rockwell
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Publication number: 20040111709Abstract: A class of add-on system components providing functionality of devices, management of self-help, customization and enhancement of services for devices, and remote monitoring at significantly reduced cost. It reduces the cost of UI and greatly enhances ease-of-use by realizing that the networked system can be headless and use a browser-based UI for its platform. It embeds a Device Model Agent (DMA) and connects to the Device-Centric Services platform to offer services. Additionally, it offers customized diagnostic access for customer representatives to enable self-help service actions to be performed, unifies and manages multiple access needs to several disparate data access mechanisms, and uses largely COTS PC hardware rather than customized PWBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael R. Furst, Loranzo Whitfield, Naveen Sharma, Ronald M. Rockwell, Tracy E. Thieret, Claude S. Fillion, Weixia Huang, Michael P. Kehoe, Arturo M. Lorenzo, Mary C. McCorkindale, Robert J. St. Jacques, Michael F. Cavanaugh, Christopher J. Regruit
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Publication number: 20030142985Abstract: Using a system of computer modules operatively associated with a document processing machine, banding defect analysis is accomplished by analyzing specific test patterns via image processing. The banding defects are characterized in terms of quantitative parameters based on an analysis of the banding defect. Key features are extracted from the banding defect parameters. The key features are analyzed in a diagnostic engine, to determine the possible source of the defect. The identified source is correlated to a recommended repair service procedure. The diagnostic process may be augmented by also including machine data in the analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Meera Sampath, Ronald M. Rockwell, D. Rene Rasmussen, Ashok V. Godambe, Eric Jackson, Raj Minhas