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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2007
Hitoshi Sekine, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alain Regnier, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yao-tian Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yue Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Senthil Selvaraj, Snoquaimie, WA (US);
Zhenning Xiao, Renton, WA (US);
Hitoshi Sekine, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alain Regnier, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yao-Tian Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yue Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Senthil Selvaraj, Snoquaimie, WA (US);
Zhenning Xiao, Renton, WA (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises sending, to a computer peripheral device, a request to obtain capabilities of the computer peripheral device; receiving a first capability description from the computer peripheral device, wherein the first capability description describes one or more capabilities, features or functions of the device at the time of the request; creating one or more graphical user interface (GUI) elements based upon the first capability description and causing displaying the GUI elements; receiving user input representing one or more selections of the GUI elements; creating job ticket data that describes a job for the computer peripheral device to perform, based on the GUI elements that were selected as represented in the user input; sending the job ticket data to the peripheral device; wherein the job ticket data describes one or more device settings that the computer peripheral device can transform to device commands.