Ricoh Company, Ltd.

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Ricoh Corporation and Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tina L Jeng

Rithy K Roth

Peter E Hart

Stephen R Savitzky

Richard Andrew Golding

Koichi Ejiri

Lak M Lam

Systems and methods are provided for enabling an application programmer to construct a new application program for communicating with a remote machine. The systems and methods include a parser class that retrieves during runtime a representation of object instances contained in a data file and for enabling the new application program to create in memory a plurality of object instances from the representation of the plurality of the object instances.

Object-oriented communications framework system with support for multiple remote machine types

An apparatus for communicating with a plurality of remote machines, of a plurality of machine types includes a computer system including a processor and memory a data communication means, coupled to the computer system and to the plurality of remote machines, for communicating with each of the plurality of remote machines, a first plurality of software objects within the memory for describing services for the plurality of remote machines, and a plurality of operations within the memory associated with the first plurality of software objects, the plurality of operations for satisfying requests described by the services of the first plurality of software objects.

Object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types

A system enabling an application programmer to construct a plurality of application programs for communicating with a plurality of remote machines of a plurality of machine types, each of the plurality of remote machines having remotely accessible data and remotely performable operations includes a computer system with a memory, a processor, and a mass storage device, the computer system for storing programs, class declarations, and class libraries in an object-oriented programming language, means for compiling files containing source-code representations of application programs in the object-oriented programming language, implementations of a hierarchy of data description classes, each implementation for describing a set of data and for describing methods for manipulating the set of data, implementations of a hierarchy of remote data description classes, each implementation for describing data items contained in one of the plurality of remote machines and for describing methods for accessing the data items, and source code files for a plurality of sample application programs, each sample application program for communicating with at least one of the plurality of remote machines.

A method for communicating with a plurality of remote machines, of a plurality of machine types, using a computer system having a memory, includes the steps of constructing within the memory a first plurality of software objects, the first plurality of software objects describing services for one of the plurality of remote machines, establishing communications with the one remote machine, and invoking operations on the one remote machine in response to requests described by services of the first plurality of software objects.

Method of using an object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types

Object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote

Object-oriented communications framework system with support for

Method of using an object-oriented communication system with support for

A remote diagnostic system provides remote diagnostics for one or more facsimile apparatus. The system comprises facsimile, a communication control adapter and a personal computer (with expert knowledge). The system includes several kinds of data files which work under a window environment, together with communication software, to look up and rewrite the buffer memory in each facsimile.

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Tina L Jeng