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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1994
Dale T Platteter, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Jeff C Carter, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
An electronic image processing apparatus having a marking machine, a source of copy sheets, a controller, and a plurality of resources wherein each of the resources includes an associated processor for storing data related to the operational timing of the associated resource. A bus interconnects the processors to the controller for directing the operation of the image processing apparatus to provide images on the copy sheets and the controller includes circuitry for interrogating each of the processors for the operational timing data and logic for responding to the operational timing data of each of the processors for dynamically configuring the controller to operate in accordance with the operational timing of the processors.