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System for automatically monitoring copiers from a remote location

  • US 5,214,772 A
  • Filed: 08/14/1990
  • Issued: 05/25/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for automatically monitoring the operational status of and initiating operational commands in one or more copy machines from a remote location, each copy machine having a copy machine control computer for monitoring copy machine status information and controlling operation of the copy machine and a control panel for user interaction at the copy machine, comprising interface means associated with each copy machine including means to access status information rom the copy machine control computer for transmission to the remote location and means to receive operation commands from the remote location for execution by the copy machine control computer, communication means between the interface means and the remote location, means to remotely monitor the status information from the copy machine control computer at the remote location and means to initiate operation commands at the remote location for execution by the copy machine control computer thereby remotely activating copy machine functions wherein the means to initiate operation commands at the remote location comprises means to remotely input copy machine commands at the remote location, means to direct the commands to a specific copy machine from the remote location and means to simulate keystrokes on the copy machine control panel at the copy machine comprising a set of latches in the interface means in parallel with copy machine operations keys on the copy machine control panel, read by the copy machine control computer.

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