Patents by Inventor Tadao Yamasaki

Tadao Yamasaki 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: 20240126491
    Abstract: System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Marquis G. Waller, Gerald Donald Boldt, Tadao Yamasaki, Steve Cousins
  • Patent number: 11789681
    Abstract: System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Marquis G. Waller, Gerald Donald Boldt, Tadao Yamasaki, Steve Cousins
  • Publication number: 20230305778
    Abstract: System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Marquis G. Waller, Gerald Donald Boldt, Tadao Yamasaki, Steve Cousins
  • Patent number: 10353654
    Abstract: A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store application integration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to execute the application integration logic to provide an interface between a print manager and one or more client devices supporting a plurality of language formats and to convert print job instructions from the plurality of language formats to a language format supported by the print manager and allow the print manager to communication status back on the print job in its own language and have that converted in to the language the client device understands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Marquis G. Waller, Gerald Donald Boldt, Minh Trong Vo, Joseph Wayne Stradling, Tadao Yamasaki