Patents by Inventor Steven L. Pline

Steven L. Pline 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: 6919967
    Abstract: An apparatus for printing pages of a print job includes a page analyzer, a converting apparatus, an identifying apparatus, an optimizer apparatus, a storage apparatus, and a merging apparatus. The page analyzer is operative to identify static page aspects and variable page aspects from page data within a print job. The converting apparatus communicates with the page analyzer and is operative to convert the static page aspects into static page layout objects and the variable page aspects into variable print data. The identifying apparatus communicates with the converting apparatus and is operative to identify the static page layout objects in the manner allowing for an optimized form to be created, and to allow for appropriate merging with the variable print data. The optimizer apparatus communicates with the identifying apparatus and is operative to convert the static page layout objects to an optimized form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert E. Pentecost, Steven L. Pline
  • Publication number: 20040098545
    Abstract: Data storage systems and methods for writing data into a memory component and reading data from the memory component are disclosed. The systems and methods transfer data in one of a number of selectable transfer modes. In one implementation, the memory component comprises a memory controller for managing data within the memory component. The memory controller comprises a switching circuit that has a plurality of data input/output (I/O) terminals and multiple sets of transfer terminals. A standard transfer circuit is connected to one set of transfer terminals and a fast serial transfer circuit is connected to another set of transfer terminals. The memory controller further comprises a compression/decompression engine that compresses data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Steven L. Pline, Andrew M. Spencer, Kenneth J. Eldredge, Michael Altree