Lexmark International, Inc.

Xerox International Partners

Xerox Corporation

Apl Group International, LLC

Ashok Murthy

Steven Robert Komplin

Russell Neville

Yoshiaki Takahashi

Carl Edmond Sullivan

James Harold Powers

Ajay Kanubhai Suthar

Gary Raymond Williams

Bradley Leonard Beach

Richard B Watkins

Jeanne Marie Saldanha Singh

Alexander D Meade

Pramod K Sharma

Richard Earl Corley, Jr

Tonya Harris Jackson

Jeanne Marie Saldanha-Singh

Reza Majidansari

Hiroyuki Hirai

Shoji Fukushima

Shinichiro Fukunaga

Jing Qing Song

Brent Rodney Jones

Donald Leo Elbert

Paul Timothy Spivey

Terence E Franey

Stephen Todd Olson

Charles Robert Carlson

Shanti Villarreal

Kris Ann Reeves

Sara Kleiman

James Patrick VanWinkle

William F Voit, Jr

Carla M Butler

Richard W Holt

Rita Sharma

Rolfe Frank Kruckas

Jan Rose Heeg

Darrin Wayne Oliver

Paul Ronald Herman

Mark Simon Boyt

Ignatius L Britto

Frank Edward Anderson

Robert Wilson Cornell

Bruce David Gibson

Benjamin Alan Askren

James M Mrvos

David Amos Ward

Shanmuga-Nathan Gnanasambandam

Donald Norman Spitz

John Dennis Zbrozek

Peter E Wallin

Colin G Maher

Lawrence Russell Steward

Victor M Simi

Michael David Lattuca

Sean David Smith

Iraj D Shakib

Todd Lucas Janes

Michael Raulinaitis

Dennis C DeYoung

Charles Spencer Whitman

Joe William Woods

Ronald Monroe Nowell, Jr

Jack Douglas Jenkins, Jr

Robert Allen Samples

Warren Kleiman

Sudarsan Srinivasan

Kuangti T Cheng

Toyohiro Takahashi

Joe Williams Woods

John Clowry Byrne

A system and method for enabling content to be displayable in association with a local client printing system associated with a printer provider. The local client printing system, in response to commands entered through the user interface, communicates with a remote printer provider server to retrieve displayable content associated with the commands entered through a user interface. The local client printing system, in response to commands entered through the user interface, communicates with the remote printer provider server to identify the display device upon which the retrieved displayable content is to be displayed. The display device receives, from the remote printer provider server, the retrieved displayable content and displays the retrieved displayable content thereupon.

Networked printing systems

A system and method for providing printing services to a mobile device connected to a network provides a remote print service provider server and local printers. The mobile device transmits a printer location request to the remote print service provider server. The remote print service provider server determines a physical location of the mobile device; determines which local printers are located within a predetermined parameter of the physical location of the mobile device; and transmits information to the mobile device identifying physical locations of local printers with respect to the physical location of the mobile device. The mobile device selects a local printer identified by the remote print service provider server and transmits, to the remote print service provider server, a print request. The remote print service provider server transmits the print request to the selected local printer.

A virtual printer interface node enables a non-cloud-ready printer to communicate with a cloud-based service, residing on an internet. The virtual printer interface node includes a housing; a communication interface to provide communication directly to the network router; and a microcontroller operatively connected to the communication interface. The microcontroller converts commands, received through the communication interface, from the cloud-based service, residing on the internet, to native protocols of the non-cloud-ready networked printer and communicates the converted native protocols to the non-cloud-ready networked printer.

Virtual printer interface node

System for authenticating communications between a non-cloud ready networked printer and a cloud-based servise through a virtual printer interface device

A system and method provide a la carte reproduction services wherein a printing system is capable of performing multiple operational printing modes, but is configured, in a normal operational printing state, to perform a subset of the multiple operational printing modes. The printing system includes a user interface to enable a user to select an operational printing mode. The printing system, in response to a user selecting an operational printing mode not included in subset of the multiple operational printing modes, communicates with a printer service provider server to request authorization to perform the user selected operational printing mode. The printer service provider server requests predetermined information from the printing system, and, upon processing and verification of information received from the printing system, configures the printing system to perform the selected operational printing mode.

Networked printing systems for providing a la carte reproduction services

System for authenticating communications between a non-cloud ready networked printer and a cloud-based service through a virtual printer interface device

Document processing devices and methods are presented, in which the device stores a remaining print unit value in its memory that represents the amount of print units currently available to enable the device to perform the document processing operations, and a programmable computer of the device selectively performs document processing jobs for users and decrements the remaining print unit value until the value reaches zero and the device provides for expenditure of print units according to color content and/or coverage levels determined for a given job.

Pre-paid document processing devices and operating methods

Methods and systems are presented for managing document processing device usage in which a customer accesses a management system to buy and pay for account credits, and to apply print units to specific managed device by conversion of account credits based on current pricing information for the specified account and the particular device at the time of the request.

Methods and apparatus for managing pre-paid printing system accounts

A method and system including a plurality of multifunctional devices being operatively associated with at least one controller and each having a preset amount of preloaded consumables at a time of initial use; and a software application for enabling at least one user to access the plurality of multifunctional devices, the software application being configured to receive information from a prepaid card, the information including a financial value relating to usage of some of the preset amount of preloaded consumables in the plurality of multifunctional devices; wherein the financial value of the prepaid card is applied by the at least one user across the plurality of multifunctional devices in any desired uniform or non-uniform financial proportions in accordance with usage determinations; and wherein the at least one user is enabled to pay for access to the plurality of multifunctional devices in time staggered installments without pre-established contractual obligations.

Method and system for providing contract-free 'pay-as-you-go' options for utilization of multi-function devices

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Union City, CA, United States of America

Ashok Murthy