Evan G Goldey

6615297, Sep 2, 2003

Dec 8, 1999

09/456771

Eric Andrew Beard - Lexington KY
Evan Glenn Goldey - Lexington KY
John Jeffrey Roberts - Georgetown KY
Craig Anthony Rudolph - Lexington KY

Lexmark International, Inc. - Lexington KY

G06F 1312

710 62, 710 64, 710 72, 382276

A system and method for manipulating the private settings of a peripheral device where the system includes at least one host computer and a peripheral device in a communication interface. The peripheral device has a data store including setting data for public settings of a peripheral device and private settings of the peripheral device that are implicated in the public settings, and has a variable manager that is in communication with the data store of the peripheral device. The host computer transmits a data packet including one or more public settings for of the peripheral device across the communication interface and the variable manager receives the data packet and retrieves the setting data from the data store in response to receipt of the data to packet. The variable manager processes the data packet and manipulates one or more of the private settings of the peripheral device.

7532339, May 12, 2009

Dec 8, 1999

09/456652

Eric Andrew Beard - Lexington KY, US
Robert Jerome Borchers - Florence KY, US
Evan Glenn Goldey - Lexington KY, US
Craig Anthony Rudolph - Lexington KY, US

Lexmark International, Inc. - Lexington KY

G06F 3/12
G06K 15/02

358 115, 358 113, 358 11

An interface is provided between two or more self-describing devices, each having a data store, or two ongoing processes on the same device sharing a common data store. The interface includes a datastream having at least one metavariable that is indicative of at least two or more parameters associated with a device. The datastream occurs between the data store of one transmitting device to the data store or one or more receiving devices or between two or more processes that may or may not share a common data store. The metavariable references or implies a number of other variables and allows devices to effectively communication without knowledge of the underlying variables. The metavariable can be data indicative of the configuration and settings of a device or can be a command altering two or more setting of a device upon receipt of the metavariable by the device. The metavariable also allows the abstraction of commands encompassing two or more variables such that function and conceptual settings can be communicated in one metavariable.

8627453, Jan 7, 2014

Dec 26, 2007

11/964297

William G. Flowers - Lexington KY, US
Stephen D. Skubik-Peplaski - Lexington KY, US
Steven L. Duncan - Lexington KY, US
Evan G. Goldey - Lexington KY, US
Stacey K. Gordon - Lexington KY, US
Charles E. Grieshaber - Versailles KY, US

Lexmark International, Inc. - Lexington KY

G06F 7/04

726 17

Methods and apparatus contemplate a system for securing imaging devices on a network by allowing a system administrator to apply different security protocols to specific functions of an imaging device. This allows a system administrator to customize the functions of the imaging device by restricting the particular functions to only those users who need them, as opposed to the global security policies currently required. The system uses a computer program product, including executable instructions, which can be stored on the imaging device itself, a network server, and/or some other device attached to the network. The computer program product can be installed directly from the manufacturer, through computer readable media, or by downloading. The product interfaces directly with the imaging device to determine what imaging functions are present and to set what security protocols are required to access those functions.

6498611, Dec 24, 2002

Jan 28, 2000

09/493525

Eric Andrew Beard - Lexington KY
Evan Glenn Goldey - Lexington KY
Craig Anthony Rudolph - Lexington KY

Lexmark International, Inc. - Lexington KY

G06F 900

345752, 345805

A system and method for providing a virtual operator panel for a peripheral device where the system includes a peripheral device including a processor and a data store that stores public settings corresponding to private settings of the peripheral device, each public setting indicative of at least one private setting of the peripheral device. The peripheral device has a device process and a host process, or alternately, is in bidirectional communication with at least one host computer including a data store, a display and a processor. The host computer or host process selectively transmits a request to the peripheral device or device process requesting public settings of the peripheral device for the generation of a virtual operator panel for the peripheral device. The peripheral device or device process receives the request for peripheral device settings from the host computer or host process, and transmits a response including at least one public setting from the data store of the peripheral device, and the host computer or host process receives the response from the peripheral device and generates a virtual operator panel based upon the response. In one embodiment, the public setting is a metavariable that implicates one or more local variables of the peripheral device.