Patents by Inventor Timothy Towns

Timothy Towns 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: 8830531
    Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an image processor to selectively rasterize a plurality of objects, and to determine if a size of a first object is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold perform a single-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold and perform a super-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: InfoPrint Solutions Company LLC
    Inventors: John Meixel, Timothy Towns, Miki Ushijima, Mikel Stanich
  • Patent number: 8719822
    Abstract: A print control unit coupled with a printer, the print control unit having host to provide partial resource components to a complex resource generator, the partial resources components including printing instructions. The complex resource generator to generate a shell representing a complex resource, generate a partial complex resource having the partial resource components, the shell to hold the partial complex resource, and store the partial complex resource to be referenced later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: InfoPrint Solutions Company LLC
    Inventors: Justin Coulter, Timothy Towns, Israel Maloney
  • Patent number: 8643872
    Abstract: A print control unit coupled with a printer, the print control unit electronically connected to the host to provide one or more base resources to a unique Object Identifier (OID) generator, the one or more base resources including printing instructions. The unique OID generator generates a unique OID relating to a derived resource via a unique OID generation module. The unique OID includes the printing instructions of the one or more base resources. A resource generator internally generates the derived resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Infoprint Solutions Company LLC
    Inventors: Justin Coulter, Timothy Towns
  • Publication number: 20120320426
    Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an image processor to selectively rasterize a plurality of objects, and to determine if a size of a first object is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold perform a single-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold and perform a super-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: John Meixel, Timothy Towns, Miki Ushijima, Mikel Stanich
  • Patent number: 8327361
    Abstract: A print control unit coupled with a printer, the print control unit having host to provide partial resource components to a complex resource generator, the partial resources components including printing instructions. The complex resource generator to generate a shell representing a complex resource, generate a partial complex resource having the partial resource components, the shell to hold the partial complex resource, and store the partial complex resource to be referenced later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: InfoPrint Solutions Company LLC
    Inventors: Justin Coulter, Timothy Towns, Israel Maloney
  • Publication number: 20100115516
    Abstract: A print control unit coupled with a printer, the print control unit having host to provide partial resource components to a complex resource generator, the partial resources components including printing instructions. The complex resource generator to generate a shell representing a complex resource, generate a partial complex resource having the partial resource components, the shell to hold the partial complex resource, and store the partial complex resource to be referenced later.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Justin Coulter, Timothy Towns, Israel Maloney
  • Publication number: 20100110474
    Abstract: A print control unit coupled with a printer, the print control unit electronically connected to the host to provide one or more base resources to a unique Object Identifier (OID) generator, the one or more base resources including printing instructions. The unique OID generator generates a unique OID relating to a derived resource via a unique OID generation module. The unique OID includes the printing instructions of the one or more base resources. A resource generator internally generates the derived resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Justin Coulter, Timothy Towns
  • Publication number: 20060221373
    Abstract: Provided is a method, system, and program for interfacing with a printer driver. Data and an acknowledgment request is received from the printer driver. The printer driver does not send further data to print until receiving an acknowledgment reply indicating that the transmitted data passed an initial check to improve printer performance. An acknowledgment reply is transmitted to the printer driver in response to the acknowledgment request before completing the initial check of the sent data to cause the printer driver to send further data. Data processing operations are resynchronized in response to detecting an error in the received data. The received data is rasterized and outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronald Parrish, David Stone, Timothy Towns, John Varga, Rose Visoski