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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Tomotoshi Sato, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Tomotoshi Sato, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ricoh Comapny, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A copy machine is configured to determine a set of one or more resources that are both external to the copy machine and available to process one or more portions of a copy job initiated at the copy machine. The copy machine is further configured to display, on a graphical user interface, one or more user interface objects that indicate one or more functions provided by the one or more resources.