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Patent No.:

US 6520616 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

David D Parks, Vancouver, WA (US);

Trung Vu Nguyen, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/9393 ; B41J 2/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/9393 ; B41J 2/05 ;
Abstract

A printer system for and corresponding method of determining an arrangement of status objects forming a status tree structure used to represent hardware components contained within a printer and the status tree structure stored within a print engine of the printer. A change in operational condition of one of the hardware components are detected with a sensor. A state of a status object corresponding to the one of the hardware components is changed to have an active state. A name of the status object having the changed state is transmitted from the print engine to a controller. The status object having the changed state is queried for a root path of the status object with the controller.


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Parks, David. (2003). Printer having a controller adapted to discover print engine status objects and method (U.S. Patent No. 6520616). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6520616

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