Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

Clint S Cuzzo

John M Hall

William Kendall Meade, Ii

Thomas G Berge

Stephen K Johnson

Kristin S Dahl

Paul E Leclerc

Theresa L McGuire

W K Meade, Ii

A document is scanned in a scanning device to obtain electronic data. The electronic data represents information on the document. The electronic data is stored to a storage device. An error then occurs either before or after beginning transmission of the data to an e-mail server. The error causes a failure in the communication of the data to the e-mail server. The method of failure detection depends on the type of failure. For a loss of power, the data storage device is examined for the electronic data. If electronic data is found, communication is established with the e-mail server and the electronic data is transmitted to the e-mail server. The data storage device must be a non-volatile data storage device to recover from a loss of power error. For a loss of communication with the server or failure to establish communication with the server, communication is established with the e-mail server and the electronic data is transmitted to the e-mail server.

Job recovery for scan to email

A system and method of providing user-relative addressing in a computer network environment includes associating a plurality of user-relative destinations with a corresponding plurality of actions. User identification information and a first user-relative destination are received. A first action in the plurality of actions associated with the first user-relative destination is identified. A first absolute destination is determined based on the first action and the user identification information.

Network system and method for providing user-relative addressing

An apparatus for tracking usage information for an image forming device is provided which includes an image forming device, processing circuitry and memory. The processing circuitry is associated with the image forming device and is operative to detect consumable usage information at the image forming device. The memory is coupled with the processing circuitry and is operative to store a data file containing the user information, the output job information, and the usage information. A method is also provided.

Hard copy cost recovery systems, an apparatus for tracking usage information for a hard copy device, hard copy devices, and a usage accounting method

A system and method are provided for transferring a directory stored in a server. The system comprises a processor circuit with a processor and a memory in the client. The system also includes directory transfer logic stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the directory transfer logic comprising: logic to generate a request for a number of data entries to be transferred from the directory stored in the server and logic to refine a resolution of the request to isolate a defined number of data entries in the directory. Also, the director transfer logic includes logic to transmit the request to the server to transfer the data entries for storage in the memory. In addition, the logical components described herein may also be included in a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.

System and method for transferring a directory in portions of limited size

The invention accurately meters usage of an electrophotographic printer/copier (EPC) by counting the number of pages that are ejected to an output bin of the EPC and incrementing a user charge value accordingly. Further, the invention determines a toner parameter value that is related to an amount of toner used on each page and bases the user charge value, at least in part, on such toner parameter value. The toner parameter value is preferably determined by counting a number of pixels that are imaged on a page. The invention further utilizes a non-volatile memory to maintain copies of usage total values, while concurrently storing such usage total values on a disk memory. If an attempt is made to substitute a different disk memory in the EPC, usage parameter values are updated thereon through use of values stored in the nonvolatile memory.

Method and apparatus for metering printer/copier usage

A page printer is described which divides each page of text, graphics, etc. into lateral page strips, each having an allocated page strip rasterization time (PSRT) based upon the printer's page print time. A method is described for assuring that a print mechanism in the printer has a strip of rasterized data waiting to be printed when a previous strip has been printed. The method comprises the steps of: determining a total rasterization execution time (RET) for all display commands in each strip; determining for a selected strip, if its RET exceeds the sum of PSRT and at least a prior strips idle strip rasterization time (ISRT), where ISRT equals PSRT less RET for the prior strip; prerasterizing the selected strip if its RET exceeds the aforestated sum and arranging it in a first queue; arranging the selected strip in a second queue if its RET does not exceed the aforestated sum; and transferring strips from the queues to a print mechanism and rasterizing strips from the second queue in the process of such transfer.

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Clint S Cuzzo