The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 28, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1994
Makoto Sekiya, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a system including a controller and peripherals connected to the controller, a plurality of statuses represents states of each of the peripherals. Most general statuses useful for controlling the peripheral are taken as statuses in a highest layer of a tree structure, and it is branched to statuses of lower layers successively. When a signal of a certain status, which has no lower statuses which branches further therefrom, signals of the statuses between the certain status and the most general status relevant to the certain status are changed successively. Simultaneously, the information of the statuses on which the signals are changed is transmitted to a controller. Thus, the status information can be transmitted surely to the controller.