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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:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Francois Picard, Conflans, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358468 ;
Abstract
A device for emulating a personal computer printer with a facsimile-machine printer (14) including a buffer memory (21) which receives data from the personal computer (3), circuits (22, 24) coupled to both a command buffer circuit (23) and a calculation block (25). The circuits (22, 24), command buffer circuit (23) and the calculation block (25) control the facsimile-machine printer (14) in response to the data, determine the availability the facsimile-machine printer (14) by effecting cyclic scanning of the facsimile-machine and control the printing of the facsimile-machine (14) printer in response to the data when the facsimile-machine printer (14) is determined to be available for printing.