Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1992-11-09
1998-01-06
Mancuso, Joseph
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
395114, 395851, 370 858, G06K 1500
Patent
active
057064113
ABSTRACT:
A computer system having a visual display indicating the status of an attached printer is disclosed. The visual display allows the user to determine various status states of the attached printer without physical examination of the printer itself. Printer states requiring user intervention, and printer states not requiring user intervention, are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the computer system displays a Printer Status window which both graphically and textually indicates the printer state. When printing, a graphical representation of the attached printer is displayed within a portion of the Printer Status window, and is animated to represent the actual printing of a page. If an error occurs while printing, the Printer Status window preferably indicates the nature of the error, and the steps which must be performed (if any) to continue printing. When not printing, the user may determine the present status of the attached printer, and such information is preferably presented to the user in graphical form. The Printer Status window may be iconized by the user, and the corresponding icon also displays to the user the state of the attached printer.
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Fluegel Steven J.
McCormick William B.
McDowell Sean C.
Robarts James O.
Legree Tracy M.
Mancuso Joseph
Microsoft Corporation
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