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System for automatically monitoring copiers from a remote location

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  • US 5,361,265 A
  • Filed: 05/03/1993
  • Issued: 11/01/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for monitoring the current operational status of a plurality of copier machines from a remote location, each copier machine monitored by the system having its own copier control computer for determining copier operational status, said system comprisinga number of interfaces equal in number to the plurality of copier machines utilizing the system, each copier machine in the system having an interface associated therewith for intercepting and passing current copier operational status information from the copier control computermeans for capturing and automatically communicating the current copier operational status information from the interface to the remote location,means for transmitting the information between the means for capturing and communicating said information and the remote location,means to receive and process the information at the remote location andmeans to obtain current operational status information of the copier machines monitored by the system wherein the means to obtain current operational status information includes means to selectively provide real-time monitoring of information from a particular copier machine monitored by the system.

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