CUSTOMIZABLE MULTI-FUNCTION PRINTING DEVICE

WIPO Patent Application WO2004096565

A3

A multi-function network printing device(10) includes customizable functions and user interfaces (48, 66) for one of several identified vertical industry spaces. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a multi-function network printing device (10); (b) identifying a business purpose having specialized needs; and (c) customizing the built-in functions and the associated GUI icons (50, 58, 60, 62, 64, 74, 76, 78, 80, 81) based upon the specialized needs of the identified business purpose. In a more specific embodiment, the customizing step includes the step of adding additional functions to the multi-function device (10) and associated icons (50, 58, 60, 62, 64, 74, 76, 78, 80, 81) displayed on the graphical-user-interface (22). In yet a further detailed embodiment, the customizing step includes the steps of: (i) providing a plurality of customization programs, each of which are associated with a particular business purpose; (ii) selecting one of the plurality of customization programs depending upon the business purpose identified in the identifying steps; and (iii) running the selected customization program on the multi­function device (10).

CHAVERS A GREG (US)
FARO CHRISTOPHER S (US)
GOFFINET KEVIN P (US)
SEEVERS TIMOTHY S (US)
SPARKS RANDY S (US)
STEELE JOHN S (US)
WEBB JAMES F (US)

PCT/US2004/012955

October 26, 2006

April 28, 2004

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LEXMARK INT INC (US)

G06F17/24; G06F13/00; G06F17/00; H04N1/00; H04N1/21

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