Xerox Corporation

Samuel A Fedele

Thomas M Bellucco

John C Czudak

Edward E Brindle

Michael L Campanella

Jehoiada W Bernard

Steven Vincent Rosekrans

Lawrence P Frumusa

Charles R Nail

Elliot J Sobel

Charles Willette

Gregory R Tellex

Joseph A DiProspero

Sharon A Catapano

Suzanne M Zingo

David C Fuller

A method and apparatus are provided in a computer network to present marketing and other pertinent information to clients from a host. The client environment is interrogated locally using a profiling engine. A customer class generated by a profiling engine on the customer server controls a URL behind an inquiry tab presented in a client user interface. When the user clicks on the tab they are taken to a portal designed by a host marketing team specifically designed for customers belonging to the customer class designated by the profiling engine. Using the method and apparatus of the present application, direct, cost effective marketing materials are delivered to customers without sending any customer information through the customer firewall back to the host.

Customer profiling engine

A system enables multimedia messages, such as audio messages, to accompany print jobs sent from a remote workstation to a central printer. Each print job includes the data to be printed, job ticket data, and multimedia data. The job ticket data is maintained on a queue, and when the job is ready to be printed, the multimedia data is activated.

Multimedia job tickets for printing machines

In a network wherein a plurality of independent computers having various page description languages (PDL's) interface with a central printer through a plurality of lines, a system allows the user or administrator of a computer on each line to elect whether the line shall have the property of persistence of a PDL for all jobs coming through the line, or whether a new PDL shall be activated as necessary depending on the particular line.

System for controlling the printing of electronic documents with various

A network printing system have plural printers for making prints, with some of the printers having different job processing capabilities; plural client inputs providing electronic documents and printing instructions that comprise each print job; and dialog filtering to enable the program selections on a universal job ticket to be edited in accordance with the processing capabilities of each individual printer.

Dialog filtering process for a printing system to filter out

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Samuel A Fedele