US 11,922,231 B1
Printing device connectivity manager for a digital front end
Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo, Glendora, CA (US); Edwin Philip Lockwood, Brea, CA (US); Jayant Bhatt, Torrance, CA (US); and Yoshihiro Osada, Torrance, CA (US)
Assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/200,861.
Application 18/200,861 is a continuation in part of application No. 18/065,845, filed on Dec. 14, 2022.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/541 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1209 (2013.01); G06F 3/1225 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing display operations in a printing system, the method comprising:
enabling a display device connectivity manager at a digital front end (DFE);
creating a display connectivity module in the display device connectivity manager, wherein the display connectivity module corresponds to a display device connected to the DFE;
loading a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs) at the display device connectivity manager to implement the display connectivity module;
installing the plurality of APIs to the display connectivity module, wherein the plurality of APIs provides interfaces within the display connectivity module to manage, handle, or transmit viewable page image data within the DFE;
interacting with the display device from the DFE using the display connectivity module; and
providing the viewable page image data to the display device.