Xerox Corporation

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Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Naveen G Sharma

Robert J St Jacques, Jr

Shanmuga-Nathan Gnanasambandam

Arturo M Lorenzo

Tracy Eugene Thieret

Michael P Kehoe

Michael Robert Furst

Claude Fillion

Hua Liu

Wendell Lewis Kibler

Mary Catherine McCorkindale

Shanmuganathan Gnanasambandam

Michael F Cavanaugh

Weixia Huang

Steven Jay Harrington

Marc Dennis Daniels

Meera Sampath

William Joseph Hannaway

John C Austin

Ronald M Rockwell

Christopher Jon Regruit

Loranzo Whitfield

Ramesh Nagarajan

Markus P J Fromherz

Lee Coy Moore

Nathaniel G Martin

Rajinderjeet Singh Minhas

Jie Lin

Wheeler Ruml

Dusan G Lysy

Frank Michael Goetz

Kovendhan Ponnavaikko

Venkatesh Guru Rao

David G Wilcox

Yu-An Sun

Stephen P Hoover

Jian Ni

Bruce Carter Lyon

Heidi M Grenek

Anjaney Sharma

Sriram Kailasam

William J Hannaway

A 360-degree double carabiner includes an outer-carabiner, an inner-carabiner and a swivel joint including a swivel cylinder and two locking pins. The outer-carabiner is enabled into a horizontal hole, the inner-carabiner is enabled into a vertical hole, the two locking pins are enabled into two smaller holes of the swivel cylinder to lock the outer-carabiner and the inner-carabiner to the swivel cylinder. The 360-degree double carabiner includes an outer latch, wherein one end of the outer latch is fixed to a proximal end of the outer-carabiner and another end of the outer latch rests on a distal end of the outer-carabiner. The 360-degree double carabiner includes an inner latch, wherein one end of the inner latch is fixed to a proximal end of the inner-carabiner, another end of the inner latch rests on a distal end of the inner-carabiner.

360 degree double carabiner

A method of providing targeted communications within a hyper-local domain from a first user to a second user, the method including receiving a communication from a first device, the first communication related to the hyper-local domain, receiving an input from a second device, comparing the input to the communication, and transmitting the communication to the second device, a third device, or combinations thereof, based on the comparing of the input to the communication.

System and method to control on-demand marketing campaigns and personalized trajectories in hyper-local domains

A method and system for designing file replication schemes in file sharing systems consider node storage constraints and node up/down statistics, file storage costs, and file transfer costs among the nodes, user request rates for the files, and user specified file availability requirements. Based on these considerations, a systematic method for designing file replication schemes can be implemented. The method first determines the number of copies of the files to be stored in the system to achieve the desired goal (e.g., to satisfy file availability requirements, or to maximize the system hit rate), and then selects the nodes at which to store the file copies to minimize the total expected cost. The file replication scheme for a peer-to-peer file sharing system in a distributed and adaptive manner can scale to a large number of nodes and files and can handle changes in the user request pattern over time.

Two-level structured overlay design for cluster management in a peer-to-peer network

A system and method is provided for providing targeted advertising to a user of a printer assembly having at least one printer device and having data communication capabilities. The printer assembly may include a grid which includes a plurality of printers that share resources and workloads. The aggregator server includes a processor for receiving and storing ad generation criteria from at least one advertiser, receiving target information from at least one printer assembly, and executing a series of programmable instructions. The instructions provide for matching the received target information with stored ad generation criteria, generating ads when a match is found, and delivering ads to the printer assembly for output to a user. Delivery or use of the ad may be verified. Charges may be levied on the advertiser for verified ads and the printer assembly may be credited accordingly, e.g., for subsidizing operating costs associated with the printer assembly.

System and method for generating and verifying targeted advertisements delivered via a printer device

A system and method for establishing a burstiness metric is presented including at least one processor and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the at least one processor, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for performing the steps of: receiving information related to a plurality of tasks performed by a plurality of electronic devices based on input received from one or more users; analyzing the received information; employing an availability model to the information analyzed; and generating a schedule based on the information analyzed and the availability model by redistributing at least one task of the plurality of tasks between the plurality of electronic devices in accordance with electronic device availability and computational loads. Also, an assessment is made based on the information analyzed to determine a proportion of the plurality of tasks to be supported to achieve a required quality of service.

System and method for burstiness-aware scheduling and capacity assessment on a network of electronic devices

The disclosed embodiments relate to creating a web service composition from a plurality of web services. For creating the web service composition, an augmented definition of the plurality of web services is created. Based on the augmented definition and a user request, a task listing the required inputs for the plurality of web services, the required outputs of the plurality of the web services, the mapping between the output of one service to the input of the second service is computed. The task of identifying the required inputs for the plurality of web services, the required outputs of the plurality of the web services, and the mapping between the output of one service to the input of the second service is crowd sourced to crowd workers who submit their responses to an online crowd sourcing platform. The collected responses are used to generate the desired web service composition.

Automated method for generating a web service composition

A system and method for scheduling and executing jobs in a decentralized multifunction device (MFD) network is provided. The method includes receiving at an origin node of the network of MFDs a job, where the job includes data and a request to perform an operation on the data. MFDs of the network are selected to execute the requested operation on at least a portion of the job data. Portions of the job data are apportioned to the selected MFDs for processing thereof by executing the requested operation. The selecting and the apportioning are performed using historical information related to previous performance and reliability of the MFDs of the network.

System and method for decentralized job scheduling and distributed execution in a network of multifunction devices

Methods and systems for automatically organizing devices in a network are disclosed. Information may be collected for a plurality of devices in a predetermined area over a predetermined period of time. The information may include device location information and device information for one or more user groups. Each user group may include one or more users. An average preference for each user group may be determined for each device based on the device usage information. The plurality of devices may be organized automatically into a plurality of clusters based on at least the determined average preferences. Each cluster may include one or more devices.

Method and system for collaborative self-organization of devices

A method and system generate a workflow for the production of a three-dimensional document. A knowledge base contains production rules for several dimensional documents. The production rules relate to a plurality of jobs, i.e., units of work involved in the production of a dimensional document. The rules also identify human and/or mechanical resources required to complete each job. The system receives, from multiple service providers, capability information corresponding to each service provider's available resources. The capability information is associated with the production rules and stored in the knowledge base. When a user selects a dimensional document to be produced, the system selects appropriate production rules for the document, accesses the associated capability information, and automatically generates a workflow for the document. The system distributes various jobs in the workflow among at least two different service providers.

Method and system for generating a workflow to produce a dimensional document

A printing system includes a plurality of print media processing modules which transfer print media therebetween during printing and a fault management agent associated with each of the modules for acquiring fault-related data from the respective processing module. A fault management system is in communication with the fault management agents and receives fault-related data from the fault management agents. The fault management system processes the fault related data to identify faults in the system, such as when a first of the processing modules is a cause of fault-related data acquired in a second of the processing modules. When a fault is identified, a reconfiguration agent may reconfigure the printing system to mitigate an impact of at least one of the identified faults.

Fault management for a printing system

Systems and methods for distributing work among a plurality of workers in a distributed environment using a granularity determinator module to determine a desired granularity of a data to be worked-on whereby each one of a plurality of document subcomponents individually maintains a level of security based on a security policy. The data is separated out into a plurality of subcomponents which are transmitted to respective workers. A consolidator module can be used to consolidate subcomponents worked on by the respective workers into one worked-on document or file for validation purposes. The system and methods provide an efficient and cost effective way to distribute confidential work to workers without compromising the confidentiality of the information contained in the document or file being worked on.

Systems and methods for distributing work among a plurality of workers

A system for controlling flow of a plurality of raw print jobs from at least one user to at least one printer in a print-shop, the system including: a print job queue adapted to received the plurality of raw print jobs; a controller adapted to monitor the plurality of raw print jobs; an estimation module comprising at least one of an estimated execution time module and an estimated network overhead module, wherein the estimation module is adapted to estimate a time to process each of the plurality of raw print jobs and the estimated network overhead module is adapted to estimate a time to transmit each of the plurality of raw print jobs to an external cloud and receive each of the plurality of raw print jobs from the external cloud; a scheduler adapted to transmit each of the plurality of raw print jobs to the external cloud or the internal cloud based upon at least one of the time to process each of the plurality of raw print jobs and the time to transmit each of the plurality of raw print jobs to the external cloud and to receive each of the plurality of raw print jobs from the external cloud, wherein the external and internal clouds are each adapted to process the plurality of raw print jobs to a plurality of processed print jobs; and, a print ready queue adapted to receive the plurality of processed print jobs and to send the plurality of processed print jobs to a printer.

System and method for automated handling of document processing workload

A file storage system includes one or more document input devices and a processor communicating with both a memory and the one or more document input devices. The processor executes a software application stored on the memory to separate a sensitive portion of a document from an insensitive portion of a document. A first type of cloud storage includes one or more storage devices in operable communication with the one or more document input devices. The first type of cloud storage is configured to store one or both of the separated portions with a level of encryption agreed upon by a user. A second type of cloud storage includes one or more storage devices in operable communication with the one or more document input devices. The second type of cloud storage is configured to store the insensitive portion of a document based on a consent of the user.

System and method for policy-driven file segmentation and inter-cloud file storage and retrieval

A method and system for enabling automatic service sharing and custom user interface features in a fleet of multi-function devices. EIP (Extensible Interface Platform) services can be registered via a peer-to-peer discovery subsystem associated with a multi-function device grid infrastructure. EIP service registration information can be submitted and stored in the grid infrastructure. The multi-function devices can be equipped with an enterprise EIP client, which can query the discovery subsystem and apply a corporate policy. The discovery subsystem detects the optimal instance of the service based on loading and availability factors and then returns a reference with respect to the services that allows access to enhanced services. Such an approach enables a fleet of multi-function devices to dynamically discover EIP services and auto populate service options to provide increased capability, reduced complexity, and improved speed.

Method and system for automatic sharing and custom user interface features in a fleet of multi-function devices

A method and system including a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), the method and system further including a storage station having geographically separated MFDs for permitting users to store information generated by the plurality of MFDs in operable communication with the locale aware DFS; wherein the information is stored on a plurality of storage stations based on a weighted undirected graph generated from a plurality of dynamically monitored user behaviors, required level of replications, and selection rules to pick the points of storage.

Method and system for a distributed file system based on user behaviors and user locales

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Naveen G Sharma