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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:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395114 ; 395113 ; 395106 ;
Abstract
A server machine queues print jobs time-sequentially, NIC takes out the print jobs on the server machine job by each job and transfers each print job to a printer controller, the printer controller executes each of the print jobs, the printer controller generates an appropriate message according to whether a print job has been completed or interrupted, NIC transfers a message to the server machine, the server machine transfers the message to the corresponding client machine, and the client machine automatically displays contents of the message.