公开(公告)号：US20220294696A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17198891

申请日：2021-03-11

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Kim P. Ciulla ,  Yolanda R. Zhesnik ,  Timothy L. Dioguardi ,  Paul Roberts Conlon ,  Kenneth B. Schleede ,  Dianne Colelli

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04N1/32 ,  G06F3/12

Abstract: A method of automatically creating trust communities in a fleet of devices. The method includes finding candidate devices in a fleet of devices via one or more candidate discovery techniques and generating device-related data based on the candidate devices that are found, analyzing the device-related data via an analytics engine and creating one or more fleet orchestrator device lists based on the analysis of the device-related data, and automatically creating one or more new trust communities or suggesting joining one or more previously existing trust communities based at least on the one or more fleet orchestrator device lists for the candidate devices, wherein the one or more new trust communities or previously existing trust communities include at least a sub-set of the devices in the fleet, and wherein at least one of the managed devices in the sub-set of devices is configured as a root device to publish files via a file sharing function.

公开(公告)号：US10367957B1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US16158771

申请日：2018-10-12

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Kenneth B. Schleede ,  Noah Ullmann ,  Yolanda R. Zhesnik ,  Jefferson Spiers Tuttle ,  Keith Watson ,  Michael William Barrett ,  Wendy Abbott ,  Mirelsa Fontanes-Perez ,  Paul Roberts Conlon ,  Mark Allen Sixbey

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F21/64 ,  G06F11/14 ,  G06F16/958 ,  G06F16/901

Abstract: A method of providing native scalable management of a fleet of managed devices, which includes establishing a Trust Community, which includes a sub-set of the managed devices, organizing the Trust Community, configuring one of the managed devices in the organized Trust Community as a Root Device to publish files via a file sharing function, adding the Root Device to a distribution profile stored in a database, creating or downloading files via the Root Device, and sharing the files with other devices in the organized Trust Community via the Root Device. Any devices on hold or offline are placed in a temporary working area for reorganizing. Download and install schedules are set up on a per device or a bulk basis according to policies. Files are placed into a staging area before re-distribution and checked for security, integrity, and/or completeness via checksums, digitally signed certificates, and/or internal structure checks.

公开(公告)号：US10366086B1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US16210159

申请日：2018-12-05

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Paul Roberts Conlon ,  Timothy Luke Dioguardi ,  Kenneth B. Schleede ,  Yolanda R. Zhesnik

IPC: G06F7/08 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/901

Abstract: A method for sorting a group of managed devices includes querying a database of managed device with a sort query, such as an SQL query. The sort query captures an initial adjacency list in which managed devices are ordered, based on their respective parent device. Each of the managed devices is associated with a set of attributes. The initial adjacency list is sorted, e.g., using a depth-first search, based on at least one sorting criterion to generate a sorted adjacency list in which managed devices having a common parent device are reordered, based on respective attributes. The sorted adjacency list can be represented as a sorted directed graph, such as a directed tree. Modifications can be made to the sorted directed graph. A visualization of the sorted and optionally modified directed graph is output and/or a file is distributed to at least some of the managed devices, based thereon.

公开(公告)号：US11966641B1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US18168099

申请日：2023-02-13

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Yolanda R. Zhesnik ,  Amanda Applin ,  Steven L. Aurand ,  Kim P. Ciulla ,  Lee C. Moore

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1219 ,  G06F3/1208 ,  G06F3/1242 ,  G06F3/1256 ,  G06F3/1284

Abstract: A method for printing a document with user-defined boundaries is disclosed. For example, a method is executed by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD) and includes receiving a user-defined boundary of a document that excludes a portion of at least one page, identifying content within the user-defined boundary, generating an MFD job with the content, and executing the MFD job.

公开(公告)号：US11582108B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-14

申请号：US17198891

申请日：2021-03-11

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Kim P. Ciulla ,  Yolanda R. Zhesnik ,  Timothy L. Dioguardi ,  PAul Roberts Conlon ,  Kenneth B. Schleede ,  Dianne Colelli

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04N1/32 ,  G06F3/12 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04L67/06 ,  H04L61/4541 ,  H04L67/51

Abstract: A method of automatically creating trust communities in a fleet of devices. The method includes finding candidate devices in a fleet of devices via one or more candidate discovery techniques and generating device-related data based on the candidate devices that are found, analyzing the device-related data via an analytics engine and creating one or more fleet orchestrator device lists based on the analysis of the device-related data, and automatically creating one or more new trust communities or suggesting joining one or more previously existing trust communities based at least on the one or more fleet orchestrator device lists for the candidate devices, wherein the one or more new trust communities or previously existing trust communities include at least a sub-set of the devices in the fleet, and wherein at least one of the managed devices in the sub-set of devices is configured as a root device to publish files via a file sharing function.