Patents by Inventor Shell Simpson

Shell Simpson 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: 20050099448
    Abstract: Memory integrated into a removable cartridge for an image forming device is programmed with image enhancement data. The image enhancement data includes a condition associated with data identifying an image enhancement technique and a parameter for implementing the image enhancement technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Eugene Roylance, Shell Simpson
  • Publication number: 20050095016
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a toner cartridge for the printing of MICR characters that includes a memory device that is programmed with the requisite font for MICR characters. The font is accessible for the printing of MICR characters when the toner cartridge is installed in a printer. In a further embodiment, the memory device on the toner cartridge may also contain a data flag indicating that a print job must print at least one symbol in the MICR font. Corresponding printer firmware may then determine if this flag is present, and, if present, will prevent the printing of print jobs that do not include at least one character to be printed in the MICR font. This prevents MICR toner from being wasted on documents that do not require MICR toner, such as normal office correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Shell Simpson, Darrel Cherry
  • Publication number: 20050084113
    Abstract: Example systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, and other forms of a secure foreign enterprise printing system are provided. An example system may include a wireless telephonic logic for communicating with a wireless network web services provider and a wireless network communication logic configured to communicate a print request to the wireless network web services provider using the wireless telephonic logic. The print item may be stored in a first enterprise and may be printed on an image forming device that is located in a second enterprise. The example system may also include an encryption logic configured to facilitate providing security for the print item as it travels from the first enterprise to the image forming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Shell Simpson, Daniel Revel, Alan Berkema, David Hall, Patrick Sandfort, Darrel Cherry, Jeremy Bunn, Kenneth Oakeson
  • Publication number: 20050076299
    Abstract: A computer implemented method by which a user edits and delivers a print job in a computer system, the method including providing a printing software object as a COM component for editing and delivering a print job and providing job data of the print job to the printing software object, by a print job creator, in the form of references to pages. The references to pages are used by the software printing object, to call and display the pages on a need basis. The user edits the job data of the print job based on the displayed pages and the print job is delivered for processing in accordance with the edited job data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Shell Simpson, Ward Foster
  • Publication number: 20050018005
    Abstract: Memory integrated into a removable cartridge for an image forming device contains image enhancement data identifying an image enhancement technique. In a method embodiment, the data is read, and the image enhancement technique identified by the image enhancement data is implemented. In another embodiment, the image enhancement data includes a parameter. The image enhancement data is read, and an image enhancement technique is implemented according to the parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Eugene Roylance, Shell Simpson
  • Publication number: 20050012951
    Abstract: A printer driver is determined according to a received printer identification. A content type that identifies the printer driver and the capabilities of the printer driver is then generated and returned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Madril, Eugenio Walters, Shell Simpson
  • Publication number: 20030090707
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making booklets are described. In one embodiment, software enables a user to browse to a network-accessible (e.g. Web-accessible) booklet-making service. The user can specify, to the booklet-making service, imaging data that is to be used to make a booklet and how that imaging data is to be used. The booklet-making service can then construct a booklet incorporating the imaging data that was specified by the user. In further embodiments, the user can print and/or save their booklet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Shell Simpson, Ward Scott Foster, Kris R. Livingston