Lexmark International, Inc.

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Craig Anthony Rudolph

Eric Andrew Beard

Robert Jerome Borchers

Christopher R Nash

Evan Glenn Goldey

John Jeffrey Roberts

Carl J Voss

Steven B Rogers

Mark A Bukowski

Mark B Greene

Joel A Jirak

Michael Ray Timperman

Allen Wayne Waugerman

Suzanne Marie Thompson

Charles Edward Grieshaber

John S Steele

Timothy S Seevers

Ronald David Parrott

William J Flowers

A method, and a system using the method, of managing and using a profile to be associated with a document. The method includes generating an identifier based on the profile and printing the identifier for use in scanning documents to be associated with the profile.

Coversheet manager application

A method of parsing print stream data including the steps of intercepting a data file from at least a portion of the print stream data, reading at least a portion of the data file and determining if said data file is of a format having subset formats.

Extensible framework for parsing varying formats of print stream data

An interface is provided between two or more self-describing devices, each having a data store, or two ongoing processes on the same device sharing a common data store. The interface includes a datastream having at least one metavariable that is indicative of at least two or more parameters associated with a device. The datastream occurs between the data store of one transmitting device to the data store or one or more receiving devices or between two or more processes that may or may not share a common data store. The metavariable references or implies a number of other variables and allows devices to effectively communication without knowledge of the underlying variables. The metavariable can be data indicative of the configuration and settings of a device or can be a command altering two or more setting of a device upon receipt of the metavariable by the device. The metavariable also allows the abstraction of commands encompassing two or more variables such that function and conceptual settings can be communicated in one metavariable.

Self-describing device interface system

A system and method for the selection and execution of a profile. The system and method comprise a data store capable of storing profiles, a user console allowing interaction between a user and a multifunction device, a communication interface adapted to allow communication via at least one communication channel and a processor in communication with the communication interface, the data store and the user console. The processor receives a profile from a profile source via the communication interface, stores the received profile in the data store, receives an indicator corresponding to a selected profile and executes the selected profile to perform an operation of the multifunction device.

Systems and methods for use of profiles in multifunction devices

A system and method for manipulating the private settings of a peripheral device where the system includes at least one host computer and a peripheral device in a communication interface. The peripheral device has a data store including setting data for public settings of a peripheral device and private settings of the peripheral device that are implicated in the public settings, and has a variable manager that is in communication with the data store of the peripheral device. The host computer transmits a data packet including one or more public settings for of the peripheral device across the communication interface and the variable manager receives the data packet and retrieves the setting data from the data store in response to receipt of the data to packet. The variable manager processes the data packet and manipulates one or more of the private settings of the peripheral device.

System and method for manipulating device settings across different types of devices

A system and method for providing a virtual operator panel for a peripheral device where the system includes a peripheral device including a processor and a data store that stores public settings corresponding to private settings of the peripheral device, each public setting indicative of at least one private setting of the peripheral device. The peripheral device has a device process and a host process, or alternately, is in bidirectional communication with at least one host computer including a data store, a display and a processor. The host computer or host process selectively transmits a request to the peripheral device or device process requesting public settings of the peripheral device for the generation of a virtual operator panel for the peripheral device. The peripheral device or device process receives the request for peripheral device settings from the host computer or host process, and transmits a response including at least one public setting from the data store of the peripheral device, and the host computer or host process receives the response from the peripheral device and generates a virtual operator panel based upon the response. In one embodiment, the public setting is a metavariable that implicates one or more local variables of the peripheral device. There is also provided a method for generating a virtual operator panel for a peripheral device including the steps of transmitting a request for peripheral device public settings from a host computer or host process to a peripheral device or device process, receiving the request at the peripheral device or device process, generating a response in the peripheral device or device process that includes at least one public setting of the peripheral device, transmitting the response from the peripheral device or device process to the host computer or host process, receiving the response at the host computer or host process, and generating a functional virtual operator panel based upon the public setting included in the received response.

System and method for providing a virtual operator panel for a peripheral device

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

Craig Anthony Rudolph