Patents by Inventor Theodore E. Ransom

Theodore E. Ransom 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).

  • System and method for presenting alert notifications for master and slave devices if in idle operational states
    Patent number: 9274914
    Abstract: A method for presenting alert notifications includes identifying an alert condition for one of a master device, a slave device, and a production device. Operational states of the slave device and the master device are determined. For each of the slave device and the master device, upon a determination that the given device is in an idle state, that device is caused to display a notification corresponding to the identified alert condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael R. Wilson, Philip W. Manijak, Theodore E. Ransom, Roland Penny, Adam J. Bernosky, Martin Schwarz
  • PRESENTING ALERT NOTIFICATIONS
    Publication number: 20120023269
    Abstract: A method for presenting alert notifications includes identifying an alert condition for one of a master device, a slave device, and a production device. Operational states of the slave device and the master device are determined. For each of the slave device and the master device, upon a determination that the given device is in an idle state, that device is caused to display a notification corresponding to the identified alert condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Michael R. Wilson, Philip W. Manijak, Theodore E. Ransom, Roland Penny, Adam J. Bernosky, Martin Schwarz
  • Intelligent printer settings
    Patent number: 6982804
    Abstract: A computer system includes an application with the ability to select printer settings from any of a variety of potential sources, and associate the printer settings with a document to be printed. The potential sources may include user-selected sets of printer settings that are particular to the document to be printed, are associated generally with the documents to be printed using the application, and globally associated with the computer system. The potential sources may also include a set of content-provider printer settings associated with the document and selected by a content-provider of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: William R. Frolik, Dana E. Laursen, William T. McMahon, Theodore E. Ransom, George M. Sachs
  • Direct printing of contents of a universal resource locator
    Patent number: 6928620
    Abstract: A URL page is printed by a computing system. When a reference to a URL address is dragged and dropped upon a print icon, the URL page is accessed from the Internet. The URL page is then printed on a printer. When the URL page is accessed and printed, the URL page is not displayed to a user of the computing system. Also, when a reference to the URL address for the URL page is dragged and dropped upon a desktop for a computing system, a special icon representing the URL page address is created on the desktop. Upon a user performing a function to activate the special icon, the URL page is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Crangle, Donald X. Smith, II, Dana E. Laursen, Theodore E. Ransom
  • Intelligent printer settings
    Publication number: 20030081019
    Abstract: A computer system includes an application with the ability to select printer settings from any of a variety of potential sources, and associate the printer settings with a document to be printed. The potential sources may include user-selected sets of printer settings that are particular to the document to be printed, are associated generally with the documents to be printed using the application, and globally associated with the computer system. The potential sources may also include a set of content-provider printer settings associated with the document and selected by a content-provider of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: William R. Frolik, Dana E. Laursen, William T. McMahon, Theodore E. Ransom, George M. Sachs