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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary Hanson, Meridian, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
A method of scheduling service events for a hard copy output engine includes (i) estimating when a service event is likely to occur, (ii) estimating, from a record of past usage, when peak usage is likely to occur, (iii) determining when the service event estimate is contemporaneous with the peak usage estimate and (iv) executing a predetermined protocol when determining is indicative of contemporaneous estimates.