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US 2006/0077465 A1Published application
Device authorization system using optical scanner
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorMartin Ball
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling access to a device having a scanner that is used for scanning images into memory and a plurality of features. The method comprises optically scanning a tag with the scanner, receiving information from the tag during the scanning process, and determining whether a bearer of the tag can access the device at all based upon information scanned from the tag.
Claims9
A method for using a scanning/printing device having a scanner that is used for scanning images into memory and a plurality of features, the method comprising:
- optically scanning a tag with the scanner;
- receiving information from the tag during the scanning process;
- setting user formatting preferences for the device based upon information received from the tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.