PRINTER MAILBOX SYSTEM SIGNALING OVERDUE REMOVALS OF PRINT JOBS FROM MAILBOX BINS

Patent №

US 5,435,544

Granted

1995-07-25

Filed 1994

Owner

XEROX CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08197092

An electronic printer and multibin mailbox system for an electronically networked system of plural users of an electronic printer, in which printer mailbox system the individual users print jobs of printed sheets printed by the printer are automatically variably directed into particular electronically assigned print job storage mailbox bins of the multibin mailbox system, at least some of which mailbox bins are nominally locked but electronically unlockable mailbox bins providing restricted public access privacy storage of confidential print jobs, further including an electronic access code inputting system for individual users to respectively input a respective access code for unlocking their electronically assigned electronically unlockable user mailbox bins, and a control system for reporting to the individual user which locked mailbox bins are occupied by print jobs, the control system also monitoring and electronically providing a job removal prompting indicator display signal when the users leave print jobs unremoved from their mailbox bins for too long a time, exceeding a preset time period.

PlanningB65H 31/24G03G 15/502G03G 15/5087G03G 15/5091G03G 15/6538G03G 21/04B65H 2405/121B65H 2407/30+5 more

AI classification

Planning0.96
Knowledge representation0.05
Vision0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

XEROX CORPORATION

assignment · 69200118

Assignors

MANDEL, BARRY P.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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