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US 6,189,113 B1Granted
Auditron data format for remote maintenance of a machine such as a copier
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsKhalid M. Rabb, John W. Daughton
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Abstract
Electronically-rendered auditron data, such as from a copier or printer, is formatted with an initial structured portion followed by an unstructured portion. A code within the structured portion instructs a downstream computer how to interpret the digits in the unstructured portion of the data, so that different sets of digits within the unstructured portion are converted to discrete numbers having assigned meanings. The resulting numbers and their assigned meanings can be readily ported to a commercial spreadsheet program.
Claims5
A method of collecting auditron data from a machine, comprising the steps of:
- the machine outputting auditron data in a format including a structured portion in which digits therein are assigned meanings depending on their position relative to a beginning of the auditron data, and an unstructured portion, the structured portion including a code therein;
- interpreting the code as an instruction to parse digits in the unstructured portion in a predetermined manner, thereby interpreting the digits in the unstructured portion as a set of discrete numbers;
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- entering the discrete numbers into a template, thereby assigning meanings to each of the discrete numbers.
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