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System for automatically monitoring copiers from a remote location

  • US 5,084,875 A
  • Filed: 12/13/1989
  • Issued: 01/28/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for automatically monitoring the operational status of one or more copier machines from a remote location, each copier machine having a copier control computer for determining copier status, comprising means for monitoring status information from the copier control computer, a translator associated with each copier including means to adapt status information from the specific copier machine into uniform status information for transmission to the remote location, means for transmitting information between the translator of each copier and the remote location and means to poll the translator for each copier machine, to obtain copier machine status information, from the remote location.

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