Xerox Corporation

Other

Charles P Holt

Frank M Nelson

Kenneth Gillett

Warren L Hall

Robert P Siegel

John W Daughton

Tracy Eugene Thieret

Ernest L Legg

Anthony M Federico

Edward L Steiner

Ronald E Rider

Michael M Shahin

George E Mager

Andrew T Ling

Kenton W Fiske

Richard M Malinich

Gerald E Carlson

Thomas Criswell

Gene A McDaniel, Jr

James J Donohue

Jerome S Raskin

In one embodiment, a server electrically connected to an image processing machine provides local data access and includes a monitor component, an analysis and prediction component to analyze data to track machine trends and predict machine subsytem and element faults, a diagnostic component capable of machine diagnostics at a higher level, components, and a communication component to provide a remote communication link. In a second embodiment, a first level of server modules are directly connected to given machines, a second level of server modules with trend analysis and diagnostic capability are connected to a network and associated with a set of machines on the network, and a third level of server modules are associated with a plurality of sets of machines on the network with the analysis and prediction components and diagnostic components providing trend data, fault prediction data, and machine corrective data for the plurality of sets of machines.

Machine dedicated monitor, predictor, and diagnostic server

A layered document services architecture facilitating operation and interconnection of electronic printing systems with both resident and non-resident work inputs.

Document services architecture

A controller having dedicated fuser circuitry and a processor for controlling the fuser heating element. The dedicated fuser circuitry interconnects an input voltage source to the processor through a low voltage power supply to provide a reference signal and a sample DC voltage signal representative of the input voltage source. The processor provides a digital signal to activate a triac connected to the fuser heating element. The triac, selectively gates the input voltage source across the heating element. A plurality of ranges of digital signals and a plurality of corresponding triac activation rates are provided for variations in input voltage. A digital signal related to a particular value of the input voltage source lies within one of the plurality of ranges determining the particular activation rate of the triac.

Open loop fuser control

An electrophotographic reproduction machine for use as a copier/duplicator having a master microprogrammed controller and a plurality of area controllers cooperatively operative to carry out a plurality of machine operation tasks. At least one of the area controllers contains a separate microprogrammed controller for controlling selected tasks and devices in the reproduction machine in synchronism with the operation of other tasks as controlled by the master controller. An optical communication link couples the master and area controllers and serves to isolate the master controller from transients and a direct I/O connection.

Distributed microprocessor control system for a copier/duplicator

In a controller for a host machine such as an electrostatographic copier having a central processing unit module connected via a system bus to an input-output processing unit module, a direct memory access system functioning as part of the input-output processing unit module and operative to provide a high-speed means of refreshing and updating control registers in the host machine by direct accessing of memory in the central processing unit module. The direct memory access system may be programmed to synchronously refresh-update the host machine's control registers as in its normal mode and also asynchronously refresh-update the control registers as in the abnormal mode of a detected electrical disturbance in the electro-sensitive periphery surrounding the control registers, thus requiring restoring thereof. High-speed movement of data by the direct memory access system is achieved through dedicating a portion of random access memory in the central processing unit module for such accessing, and transferring control of the system bus from the central processing unit module to the direct memory access system. This enables data accessed through a fixed sequence of addresses from dedicated memory to be transferred directly to the host machine's control registers without incurring time constants that would otherwise be had if the data were to be manipulated by a central processor in the central processing unit module.

Direct memory access module for a controller

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Williamson, NY, United States of America

Charles P Holt