Fault management for a printing system

US8607102B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Meera Sampath · Penfield, US
• Markus P. J. Fromherz · Palo Alto, US
• Dusan G. Lysy · Fairport, US
• Rajinderjeet Singh Minhas · Churchville, US
• Naveen Sharma · Fairport, US
• William J. Hannaway · Webster, US
• Wheeler Ruml · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2006
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N2201/0094
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A printing system includes a plurality of print media processing modules which transfer print media therebetween during printing and a fault management agent associated with each of the modules for acquiring fault-related data from the respective processing module. A fault management system is in communication with the fault management agents and receives fault-related data from the fault management agents. The fault management system processes the fault related data to identify faults in the system, such as when a first of the processing modules is a cause of fault-related data acquired in a second of the processing modules. When a fault is identified, a reconfiguration agent may reconfigure the printing system to mitigate an impact of at least one of the identified faults.