Patents by Inventor Yoshiko Orito

Yoshiko Orito 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).

  • Printing system using email to notify client devices of printing management information of print data sets
    Patent number: 7340514
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Funahashi, Yoshiko Orito
  • Printing system for selectively erasing print data set in spool region when total data size of print data sets exceeds preset reference data size
    Patent number: 7209984
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiko Orito
  • Printing system providing print controller capability to retrieve amend and update data stored in local memory of a printer
    Patent number: 7207734
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Funahashi, Yoshiko Orito
  • Printing system including a printer and client devices connected by a network
    Publication number: 20050238401
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Funahashi, Yoshiko Orito
  • Printing system including a printer and client devices connected by a network
    Publication number: 20050238402
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Funahashi, Yoshiko Orito
  • Printing system including a printer and client devices connected by a network
    Patent number: 6932523
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Funahashi, Yoshiko Orito
  • Printing system including a printer and client devices connected by a network
    Publication number: 20040169884
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data has been used for reprint operations a certain amount of times. If the amount of print data stored in the printer exceeds a reference size, then print data sets are selected for erasure based on predetermined conditions. Data stored in the printer can be retrieved from the printer and amended at the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Funahashi, Yoshiko Orito
  • Image reading-and-transferring system utilizing computer correction of tone data
    Patent number: 6072912
    Abstract: An image scanner produces white level data when the white plate is irradiated with light. The image scanner produces black level data when the white plate is irradiated with no light. Correction data constructed from the thus produced white level data and black level data is transferred to the host computer. Next, the image scanner produces tone data for the original, and transfers the tone data to the host computer. In the host computer, the tone data is corrected into either one of the 256 levels "00" to "FF." This correction operation is attained with using average values of the transferred white level data and average values of the transferred black level data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiko Orito