Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Dehua Zhao

Christopher Nguyen

Marianne L Kodimer

Michael Lee Yeung

William Su

Louis M Ormond

Kevin C Shih

David Webb

Jia Chen

A system and method for noise management for printers includes a processor that retrieves temporal data indicative of a current day or time. A print job is received via a network interface. The processor determines a relative noise level associated with printing of the print job and modifies a printing operation of an electronic document associated with a received print job in accordance with a determined, relative noise level and retrieved temporal data.

System and method for noise managed document processing operations

A stand-alone data collector is configured to obtain configuration data that includes IP addresses to be monitored when the data collector is started. The data collector performs simple network management protocol (SNMP) walks of the management information bases (MIBs) of networked document processing devices associated with the monitored IP addresses to obtain meter data associated with usage of the networked document processing devices. The data collector aggregates the meter data and forwards the aggregated meter data to a network server and other recipients designated in the configuration data. The data collector can be configured to discover networked document processing devices associated with the monitored IP addresses. The data collector can include a chassis that houses a Raspberry Pi-based circuit board that performs the data collection operations.

Device data collector

A system and method for managed device data collection includes a data collector controller for control of monitoring activity of networked multifunction peripherals. A user interface includes a display rendering a plurality of processor rendered interactive user configuration screens. Displayed configuration screens solicit and receive corresponding user input. The configuring screens facilitate setting device user interaction including setting a network address, network connectivity testing, modification of device certificates, changing network settings, and a testing discovery, registration or data transfer mechanism for multifunction peripheral device data collection. A data storage stores user selection data received via rendered configuration screens and the processor outputs stored user selection data as configuration data for data collection from the multifunction peripherals.

Method and apparatus for simplified device data collection

A system and method for selecting and registering applications associated with operation of a multifunction peripheral includes a processor, a network interface and a memory. A plurality of user selectable applications for operation of a multifunction peripheral controller is stored. Each customization group includes a plurality of electronic files, and each customization group corresponds to a unique business type. A plurality of device customization data sets, each data set corresponding to document processing in the multifunction peripheral are also stored. Indicia are displayed identifying customization groups by business type. At least one user selected application is identified. A customizations menu listing available customizations from the selected identified customization group is generated. A user selects one or more applications from the customizations menu. A determination is made as to whether each application associated with the user application selection input is registered. Each unregistered application is registered.

System and method for remote device interface customization

A system and method for capturing and rendering of images includes a wearable or portable data device including a digital camera. A data storage includes data specifying a default image printer and default print settings for digital images. An image capture operation triggers a prompt for expedited image rendering in accordance with preset default settings. Input responsive to the prompt selects for immediate commencement of a print operation for a captured image in accordance with default settings. Image capture and communication can be accomplished with wearable digital eyewear working in concert with an associated, portable data device such as a smartphone. Captured images may be queued in a user device when a data path to the printer is unavailable.

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Dehua Zhao