Xerox Corporation

Fuji Xerox Corporation

Vikram R Mahuvakar

Joseph Z Fung

Shee-Yen Tan

Jennifer D Thomas

Ton H Truong

Charles H Evans, Iv

Gilbert K K Leong

Nobuyuki Takao

A plug and play interface for output device used in a distributed computer network includes a front end module which submits print jobs to a document processor module. The document processor module processes the print jobs and forwards the print jobs to a back end module, which directs the print jobs to the appropriate output devices. The plug and play interface allows for the addition of various output devices connected by various protocols by simply bringing into to the back end a shared library corresponding to the new output device. Thus, various output devices may be used without requiring any revision of or stopping the system.

Dynamic plug and play interface for output device

A filter interface allows a filter to send extracted attribute information extracted from the master document data to a server. The server then stores the received attribute information into an attribute database.

Filter interface for managing printer system information

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Alhambra, CA, United States of America

Vikram R Mahuvakar