Appeal No. 2003-1883
Application No. 08/953,488 Page 6
from various sources. For example, a user can send a job to a
printer from their respective workstation.
From these disclosures of Mandel, we find that users send
print jobs to the shared use printer(s) from their workstations.
Mandel further discloses (col. 15, lines 38-42) that “[t]he
mailbox controller 100 can periodically interrogate the bin-empty
sensors 40 to see which bins 11 are then empty. This
interrogation is preferably done each time the printer and/or
print server is sent (and/or is preparing to print) a print job.”
It is further disclosed (col. 16, lines 46-52) that
“[a]lternatively, as shown by the dashed line between the printer
14 and the controller 100 in FIG. 5, the printer associated with
the mailbox may provide the sheet count for the job which is
being printed or about to be printed for a designated user, which
designated users’ print jobs are being sent to that particular
bin at that time. I.e., the bin assigned at that time to that
print job.” Mandel additionally discloses (col. 28, lines 37-43)
that “if there is a ‘bin-full’ signal for the bin, or the ‘bin-
almost-full’ condition exists prior to sending larger job to the
printer for printing, then by default the entire job may be
redirected to the selected alternate output area, such as the
overflow tray, another unutilized unassigned bin, or the
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