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  • Transducers with constraints model for print scheduling
    Patent number: 5631740
    Abstract: An electronic image processing apparatus has a controller and a plurality of resources in an arbitrary configuration. Each of the resources includes an associated processor storing data related to operational constraints of the associated resource and a bus interconnects the processors to the controller for directing the operation of the resources. The controller is adapted to operate independent of a particular configuration of the plurality of resources by receiving from each of the processors the data related to the operational constraints of each associated resource and interrogating each of the processors to determine the geometrical relationship of the interconnection of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Marc W. Webster, Vijay A. Saraswat, John C. Austin, Daniel L. McCue, III, Markus P. J. Fromherz
  • Commitment groups to generalize the scheduling of interdependent document output terminal capabilities
    Patent number: 5617214
    Abstract: An electronic image processing apparatus has a controller and a plurality of resources in an arbitrary configuration. Each of the resources includes an associated processor storing data related to operational constraints of the associated resource and a bus interconnects the processors to the controller for directing the operation of the resources. The controller is adapted to operate independent of a particular configuration of the plurality of resources by receiving from each of the processors the data related to the operational constraints of each associated resource and interrogating each of the processors to determine the geometrical relationship of the interconnection of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Marc W. Webster, Paul A. Rulli, Daniel L. McCue, III, Vijay A. Saraswat, Markus P. J. Fromherz
  • Machine graphs and capabilities to represent document output terminals composed of arbitrary configurations
    Patent number: 5701557
    Abstract: An electronic image processing apparatus has a controller and a plurality of resources in an arbitrary configuration. Each of the resources includes an associated processor storing data related to operational constraints of the associated resource and a bus interconnects the processors to the controller for directing the operation of the resources. The controller is adapted to operate independent of a particular configuration of the plurality of resources by receiving from each of the processors the data related to the operational constraints of each associated resource and interrogating each of the processors to determine the geometrical relationship of the interconnection of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Marc W. Webster, Vijay A. Saraswat, Markus P. J. Fromherz, John C. Austin, Paul A. Rulli, Daniel Lawrence McCue, III