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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael E Worley, Beavercreek, OH (US);
James M Armstrong, Enon, OH (US);
Assignee:
Reed Elsevier Inc., Newton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 395101 ; 395109 ; 364235 ;
Abstract
A printer control apparatus includes a modem for receiving text data in the EBCDIC protocol and generic printer control codes from a host data base and a converter for converting the received information to drive a non-standard printer. A preprogrammed EPROM in cooperation with a CPU, converts the EBCDIC protocol language to the ASCII language. An EEPROM is remotely programmed to store printer control codes which are peculiar to the specific printer being supported.