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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:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Nan M Stumbo, Fairport, NY (US);
Mark R Reinhart, Pittsford, NY (US);
Naveed Ismail, Rochester, NY (US);
Chien-kuo E Chuang, Rochester, NY (US);
Khanh P Dinh, Anaheim, CA (US);
Jim I Benjamin, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A network printing system is available to a large population of users submitting jobs thereto at random times. The system includes a first decomposer facility, such as for PostScript.TM. or PDF interpretation, and a second decomposer facility, such as for PCL interpretation. The first decomposer facility is capable of parallel interpretation of multiple page images within a job, while the second decomposer facility may not be. A buffer manager arbitrates the operation of the decomposer facilities, so that page images of different page description languages or other image formats are processed optimally.