Accessory modules
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10248363B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-02

    申请号:US15118193

    申请日:2014-02-13

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: An accessory module to receive a request for a web resource from a client device. In response to the request, the accessory module may redirect the client device to at least one setup webpage, different from the web resource, for configuration of the accessory module.

    Toner level determination and notification

    公开(公告)号:US11156939B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US17256347

    申请日:2018-11-07

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08 G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus and method for determining a toner level and providing a notification are provided. The method of operating an image forming apparatus includes counting a number of times a lower toner hopper receives toner from an in-situ refillable upper toner hopper, calculating an estimate of toner volume transferred from the lower toner hopper to a surface of a photosensitive drum, determining an amount of toner consumed from the in-situ refillable upper toner hopper based on the number of times the lower toner hopper receives toner from the in-situ refillable upper toner hopper and the estimate of toner volume transferred from the lower toner hopper to the surface of the photosensitive drum, and generating an upper toner hopper refill notification when the amount of toner consumed from the in-situ refillable upper toner hopper is determined to exceed a threshold value.

    Print caching
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11132159B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-28

    申请号:US16499038

    申请日:2017-04-25

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12 H04W4/029 G06F21/60

    摘要: An example system includes a client interface to receive a print job from a client device, wherein the print job includes a user identifier (UID) and a current user location. The example system further includes a controller having an adaptive caching portion to determine that the current user location is a new user location for the UID, identify at least one printer identifier (PID) associated with the new user location, and associate the UID with the new user location and the at least one PID. The system further includes a printer interface to adaptively cache the print job in its entirety at least at one printer corresponding to the at least one PID.

    ICONOGRAPHIC CONTROL PANEL OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20210364966A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US16972061

    申请日:2018-11-06

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00 H04N1/00

    摘要: An iconographic control panel of an image forming apparatus is provided. The iconographic control panel includes a plurality of physical iconographic control buttons respectively corresponding to a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus, each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons comprising at least one dedicated light emitting diode, and at least one processor to determine an availability of the plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons, determine a functional state of the plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus determined to be available, and control an illumination of the at least one LED of each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons based on the availability of each function corresponding to each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons and the functional state of each function determined to be available.

    PRINT CACHING
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210109689A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-15

    申请号:US16499038

    申请日:2017-04-25

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12 G06F21/60 H04W4/029

    摘要: An example system includes a client interface to receive a print job from a client device, wherein the print job includes a user identifier (UID) and a current user location. The example system further includes a controller having an adaptive caching portion to determine that the current user location is a new user location for the UID, identify at least one printer identifier (PID) associated with the new user location, and associate the UID with the new user location and the at least one PID. The system further includes a printer interface to adaptively cache the print job in its entirety at least at one printer corresponding to the at least one PID.