Patent №
US 4,849,883
Granted
1989-07-18
Filed 1987
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, ARMONK, NEW YORK 10504, A CORP. OF NEW YORK
Lab
AI components
3
nlp · planning · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
07115019
A printer support utility provides full support for all compatible printers attached to personal computers operating in a professional office system environment. The utility provides an interface that interprets ANSI printable data and restructures the data to allow for improved printing of underscore, overstrike and highlight, especially in non-impact printers such as laser printers and ink jet printers. The utility reads each line of printable data from an input file and tests the line for a line control indicating a new print line. If not a new print line, the utility scans the line for underscoring, overstriking and highlighting of characters; but if a new print line, the utility converts the scanned line to a personal computer printer line and writes the line to an output file. Finally, the converted print line in the output file is printed.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, ARMONK, NEW YORK 10504, A CORP. OF NEW YORK
assignment · 48160726
Assignors
MITCHELL, MICHAEL O., MC GLYNN, KEVIN P.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.