Patents by Inventor Thomas Bechtel

Thomas Bechtel 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).

  • Image processing system receiving simultaneous scan requests from multiple scanners
    Patent number: 7353998
    Abstract: In a system comprising at least one scanner in communication with a computer said computer having plurality of process instantiable therein, said processes including a plurality scanning processes, a communications layer, and monitoring software, said instantiable processes being in communication with one another when instantiated, and said communication layer being in communication with said at least one scanner when instantiated, a method of operating an image processing system, comprising: instantiating the monitoring software, receiving a device scan request at said communication layer from at least one said scanner; associating at said communication layer a unique identifier to said device scan request identifying said at least one scanner from which the device scan request was received; transmitting said device scan request and said corresponding unique identifier to said monitoring software; and instantiating one said scanning process dependent upon said device scan request and said corresponding uniqu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Bechtel, Joshua E. Ellingsworth, Michael L. Whitlock
  • Image processing system receiving simultaneous scan requests from multiple scanners
    Publication number: 20060132838
    Abstract: In a system comprising at least one scanner in communication with a computer said computer having plurality of process instantiable therein, said processes including a plurality scanning processes, a communications layer, and monitoring software, said instantiable processes being in communication with one another when instantiated, and said communication layer being in communication with said at least one scanner when instantiated, a method of operating an image processing system, comprising: instantiating the monitoring software, receiving a device scan request at said communication layer from at least one said scanner; associating at said communication layer a unique identifier to said device scan request identifying said at least one scanner from which the device scan request was received; transmitting said device scan request and said corresponding unique identifier to said monitoring software; and instantiating one said scanning process dependent upon said device scan request and said corresponding uniqu
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Bechtel, Joshua Ellingsworth, Michael Whitlock