Lexmark International, Inc.

Michael Ray Timperman

Charles Edward Grieshaber

Stuart Willard Daniel

Jason Eric Waldeck

Chad Eugene McQuillen

Amanda Kay Bridges

William James Gardner Flowers

Mohamed Nooman Ahmed

Michael E Lhamon

Richard Francis Russell

Charles Thomas Wolfe

Dennis Herbert Hasselbring

Steven Frank Weed

Lawrence Russell Steward

Mark Walter Fagan

Craig Anthony Rudolph

Allen Wayne Waugerman

Suzanne Marie Thompson

Christopher R Nash

Timothy S Seevers

Heather Laudan Clark

Ronald David Parrott

William J Flowers

A method for controlling a peripheral device includes receiving input from a user at a workstation adapted to the user, determining whether the received input can be valid, generating a job ticket from the valid input, sending the job ticket to the peripheral device and receiving an identifier representing the job ticket from the peripheral device.

Access to networked peripheral device for impaired users

A method for an impaired user to control a peripheral device including receiving key-value pair input from the user, determining whether the received input is valid and executing a job generated from the valid received key-value pair input.

Peripheral device

A document processing device configured to communicate with a first device and a user input device. The document processing device includes a controller having memory. The controller is operable to receive a first communication from the first device. The first communication includes a job to be processed by the printing device and a first shortcut access code associated with the job. The first shortcut access code is stored in the memory of the controller. The controller is also operable to receive a second communication from the user input device. The second communication includes a second shortcut access code. The controller holds the job to be processed until the controller receives the second communication and verifies the second shortcut access code matches the first shortcut access code.

Multi-function printing device

A method of sharing a printer between a plurality of users on a computer network includes attaching host-based networking hardware to the printer. A network communication protocol defines a command channel and a data channel. Only one of the users is allowed to own the data channel at any single point in time. The host-based networking hardware is instructed to accept information on the data channel only from the user that owns the data channel.

Method of sharing a printer

The present invention relates to providing a printing device which allows for user authentication. The printing device may communicate with the authentication device using universal serial bus (USB) protocol, wherein the printing device contains a universal serial bus (USB) host. User authentication may encompass the provision of valid identifying information or presenting sufficient funds as a condition prior to performing a print job or granting access to data.

USB host device for printer interface

A method of processing data packets includes receiving a plurality of the data packets at a selected node. Pertinent information in the data packets is extracted. The pertinent information is pertinent to the selected node. A plurality of response data packets are generated based on the pertinent information. The extracting and generating steps are performed without use of a microprocessor.

Device for processing data packets without use of a microprocessor and a memory

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 method of obtaining information from a networked device is provided. The method includes the steps of defining a network; providing a network adapter communicatively connected to the network, the network adapter connected to the networked device; providing memory in the network adapter; updating information in the memory, wherein the information describes a status of the networked device; placing the information into a response frame; and sending the response frame in response to any command frame received by the network adapter.

Method and apparatus to obtain real-time status information from a networked device

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Versailles, KY, United States of America

Michael Ray Timperman