Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Pierce

Thomas L. Pierce 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: 11481162
    Abstract: A system and method are provided which enable a print media color to be used, as a replacement for a mixture of one or more colorants, in rendering portions of a print job. One or more multidimensional look-up tables are provided. Each table provides for an identified input color, in a device-independent space, to be equated to no colorant, when printed on the respective print media. The identified input color is one of a set of input colors, which, when printed and measured, has an output color that is closest to a measured color of the print media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Deepthi Sidavanahalli Rao, Thomas L. Pierce, Stephen M. Kroon
  • Patent number: 11418683
    Abstract: An image processing system and method provide for receiving a digital document page to be printed. The page includes a background region for which no color is specified. A user is presented with an option to select a print medium from a set of print media of different colors and to select an option for a color of the selected print medium be used as a color of a background layer of the digital document page. When the option is selected, a background layer is inserted into the page. A print job incorporating the processed digital document page is output to an associated printer that is configured to convert the color of the background layer to colorant values that use the print media as a colorant for rendering at least a part of the background region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick J. Ramsey, Thomas L. Pierce, Elizabeth Crossen, Clara Cuciurean-Zapan, Deepthi Sidavanahalli Rao, Alan K. Robertson, David St. John, Jeremy Griffith
  • Publication number: 20200294075
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing fuel costs. Fuel-related data, including a request for authorization of a fuel transaction, is received from a fuel-related data source via a communications network. A fuel-related score is computed based on the fuel-related data and a predetermined weighting factor. The fuel-related score is presented through a user interface. In one example aspect, a fuel-related notification is generated for the fuel transaction based on the fuel-related score and a predetermined alert rule stored in an alert rule database. The predetermined alert rule is one of a plurality of sets of predetermined alert rules stored in association with a plurality of corresponding fleets, in another example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas L. Pierce, JR., Randall K. Morgan, Charles T. Joseph
  • Publication number: 20150088613
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing fuel costs. Fuel-related data, including a request for authorization of a fuel transaction, is received from a fuel-related data source via a communications network. A fuel-related score is computed based on the fuel-related data and a predetermined weighting factor. The fuel-related score is presented through a user interface. In one example aspect, a fuel-related notification is generated for the fuel transaction based on the fuel-related score and a predetermined alert rule stored in an alert rule database. The predetermined alert rule is one of a plurality of sets of predetermined alert rules stored in association with a plurality of corresponding fleets, in another example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Comdata Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Pierce, JR., Randall K. Morgan, Charles T. Joseph
  • Patent number: 8305593
    Abstract: According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided a user interface system for preparing an output document of a digital printing device having a user interface, a set of output options for the output document. The user interface enables selection of at least one output option from the set of output options. The system further provides a display device operatively connected to the user interface and configured to display at least one user interface mimic for the output document, with the at least one user interface mimic providing a graphical representation of the output document based on selection of the output options. After displaying the at least one user interface mimic, the user interface allows users to modify the output options prior to printing the output document. Then, the system updates the display of the at least one user interface mimic, based on modifications to the output options, prior to printing the output document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas L. Pierce, Andrew J. Welsh, Kara Allison Rozen
  • Publication number: 20100134825
    Abstract: According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided a user interface system for preparing an output document of a digital printing device having a user interface, a set of output options for the output document. The user interface enables selection of at least one output option from the set of output options. The system further provides a display device operatively connected to the user interface and configured to display at least one user interface mimic for the output document, with the at least one user interface mimic providing a graphical representation of the output document based on selection of the output options. After displaying the at least one user interface mimic, the user interface allows users to modify the output options prior to printing the output document. Then, the system updates the display of the at least one user interface mimic, based on modifications to the output options, prior to printing the output document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas L. Pierce, Andrew J. Welsh, Kara Allison Rozen