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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120072814 | POINT OF NEED ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC MAINTENANCE MANUAL UTILIZING CURRENT MACHINE STATUS A method and system for providing point of need diagnostic information in an electronic service manual. A rendering device can be configured to transmit machine diagnostics related reports to a computer. The diagnostics are then integrated into an electronic service man... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND UPDATING SHIPPING INFORMATION A system and method for providing and updating shipping information with respect to a supply order. A supply order with respect to a shipping package can be placed into a helpdesk unit via a client device. A tracking number with respect to the supply order can be entere... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING DOCUMENT WORKFLOW AND RENDERING LOGIC A method and system for integrating a document workflow and a rendering logic in order to visually modify a document based on WYSIWYG application. A document incorporating a number of changes can be visually displayed by integrating a logic that interprets a workflow as... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120038944 | WIRELESS LOCATION BASED RENDERING JOB DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD A wireless location based rendering job delivery system and method. An account with respect to a remote recipient can be subscribed to a globally accessible network cloud and GPS location data with respect to the remote recipient can be transmitted to the network cloud ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036422 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING FORMS BASED ON AN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER A system and method for rendering a form based on an identification number. A client device including an extensible interface platform (EIP) application can be configured in association with a centralized server via a network. A form category can be selected and the ide... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036348 | DECRYPTION AND PRINT FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD A method and system for determining a data file's security classification, special handling instructions, and disposition, with the additional option of subsequently adding material to the print image contained within the document, is disclosed. The method and system pr... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A REMOTE JOB SUBMISSION ACCELERATOR REPORT IN A MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE A system and method for generating a remote job submission accelerator report with respect to a network multi-function device. A multi-function device can be configured to receive a job from a mobile communication device via a submission path. A text representation with... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026530 | AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE An augmented reality system and method for diagnosing and fixing a fault in a device. A mobile communication device can be operatively connected with a networked rendering device by reading a two-dimensional bar code associated with the rendering device. An image with r... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110276866 | Method of multi-document aggregation and presentation Methods and systems for multi-document aggregation provide data representing a redundancy graph constructed from a document or document set and determine the longest acyclic path in the document redundancy graph. Nodes of the longest path are assigned to a column to be ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20120008161 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBMITTING A RENDERING JOB VIA A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE An automated system and method for submitting a rendering job via a mobile communications device utilizing a two-dimensional bar code application. A two-dimensional bar code (e.g., quick response code) can be configured in association with the rendering device and the t... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARTITIONING AND MAPPING COLOR GAMUTS BASED ON ONE-ONE AND ONTO MAPPING FUNCTION A method and system for mapping color gamuts based on one-one and onto mapping function in order to create an invertible transform is disclosed. A hue leaf associated with at least two arbitrary color gamuts can be defined utilizing a vector math function and a most sat... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110317915 | SWITCHING CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING IMAGE GRAININESS DURING COLOR MANAGEMENT PROFILE CONSTRUCTION A switching controller system and method for improving graininess in an image during a profile construction. A switching control strategy can be employed to construct an ICC destination profile by switching between a first controller (e.g., a 3-input 4-output controller... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110292410 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING A COLOR BAR AS A RENDERING JOB TICKET ATTRIBUTE A system and method for automatically adding a color bar as a rendering job ticket attribute and dynamically generating the color bar based on the rendering job attribute. The color bar can be added in association with the rendering job ticket along with a set of sub-at... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286061 | SMART MODE COLOR WORKFLOW A technique for achieving optimal color quality in rendered print jobs using a smart mode color workflow is disclosed. A smart mode color workflow provides for a pre-flight check of a print job to determine the job's relevant color attributes. Only relevant color attrib... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110258298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING NETWORK COMPATIBLE DEVICES UTILIZING INTERNET-BASED BEACON TECHNOLOGY A system and method for accessing a network compatible device utilizing an Internet based beacon technology. A compatible host application can be installed on a client device and registered with a network by providing a user credential and a qualifying descriptor. The n... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255112 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSOLIDATING AND MANAGING RENDERING JOBS A system and method for consolidating and managing rendering jobs. A folder can be automatically created based on a system username associated with a user upon receiving a personal rendering job and/or a secure rendering job with respect to a rendering device such as, f... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255110 | FOLLOW-ME PRINTER DRIVER A method and system for follow-me printing, including a data-processing apparatus and rendering device in communication with a network. A user can elect a print request to be rendered at any one of the rendering devices, upon user authentication. A Follow-Me Printer Dri... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION BASED ON AN INACTIVITY PERIOD A system and method for identifying and reducing power consumption in a rendering device based on an inactivity period. Historical data based on a customer usage pattern can be analyzed to detect the inactivity period (e.g., end of day) and to intelligently force the de... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110228340 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING AND INSERTING DIVIDERS INTO MULTI-SECTION DOCUMENTS FROM MULTIPLE FILES A method and system for inserting dividers in a rendering job. A group of individual files can be compiled into a single document. The individual files can then be arranged in a preferred order. One or more dividers can then be inserted in-between each of the individual... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228282 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING A MULTIPLE-BEAM CURVATURE/FLATNESS SENSOR A method and system for calibrating a multiple-beam curvature/flatness sensor in order to provide an accurate media curvature/flatness measurement. One or more flat media sheets are passed through a multiple-beam media curvature/flatness sensor and the timing data assoc... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110197271 | CARD BASED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEASING STORED RENDERING JOBS An authentication system and method for securely releasing a stored rendering job utilizing an electronically readable card. The electronically readable card can be registered by entering network credential at a user interface associated with a MFD and the card can be v... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110196650 | DUAL CROSS BEAM SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING LEAD EDGE AND/OR TRAIL EDGE MEDIA CURL A system and method for measuring a lead edge and/or a trail edge media curl utilizing a dual cross beam sensor. The dual cross beam sensor includes one or more pairs of emitters (e.g., a pair to two pairs of emitters) and one or more detectors positioned sequentially i... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110188062 | EXPANSION DIFFICULTY PREDICTION METHOD AND SYSTEM A method and system for predicting expansion difficulty and an expansion time required to perform print-time imaging operations. A print-ready compressed file may be generated by raster image processing of a job description file associated with a rendering job provided ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185220 | REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON DEVICE DATA CLASSIFICATION A remote diagnostic system and method based on device data classification. Device diagnostic data with respect to a device can be acquired and a conditional probability look up table can be constructed for each fault code associated with the device diagnostic data by a ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110176151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND USING CUSTOMIZED SAMPLE RENDERING JOB A system and method for configuring a customized sample job for monitoring print quality and increasing proofing flexibility. A sample job comprising one or more pages can be created in association with print programming attributes utilizing a document creation applicat... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110154180 | USER-SPECIFIC DIGITAL DOCUMENT ANNOTATIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE REVIEW PROCESS A reviewer opens or imports a document into a document viewer. The reviewer can then create various annotations to the document. The reviewer then has the option of assigning each annotation to a specific recipient or group of recipients. The document viewer can be impl... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153194 | NAVIGATIONAL GPS VOICE DIRECTIONS VIA WIRELESSLY DELIVERED DATA AUDIO FILES A method and system for delivering audio directions to a portable handheld wireless communications device. A portable handheld device can be configured to receive and play data audio files, such as, for example, MP3 audio files. Thereafter, a processor or third party se... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110137855 | MUSIC RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SOCIALIZED MUSIC SERVER A music recognition method and system for retrieving metadata based on content associated with a media file. The system includes a music recognition plug-in module associated with a music management unit that communicates with a centralized music repository. The unknown... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134451 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ROOT CAUSE OF PROBLEMS IN MEMBERS OF A FLEET OF MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICES A distributed data mining system and method for determining root cause of problems associated with a MFD cloud. The MFD cloud may be configured to include a fleet of networked MFDs within an enterprise firewall to perform data analytics in real time. High frequency data... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110131504 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND DISTRIBUTING SOCIAL AND BUSINESS CONTACT INFORMATION ONLINE An information management and distribution method and system for updating contact information over a network. A plug-in associated with a cloud-based back-end unit interacts with a Web application. A virtual card comprising a set of pluggable user interface components a... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110131211 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VISUALIZING TOPIC LOCATION IN A DOCUMENT REDUNDANCY GRAPH Methods, systems, and computer program products can visualize topic location in a document redundancy graph. Document subcomponents such as, for example, document paragraphs of a document or document set can be searched for user interface specified search data and a det... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110125546 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-USABLE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING FINANCIAL DATA BASED ON LONG TERM DEMAND DATA A method and system for generating a multi-year variable priced outsourcing contract based on a long term demand forecast utilizing a diffusion model. Historical data comprising print requirements associated with a business process can be determined. The Bass diffusion ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110109929 | AUTOMATIC ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FONT SUBSTITUTION USING PRINT CONTROL POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE LOGS A method and a system are disclosed for the automatic substitution of font with a toner saving font. Dynamic substitution of document specified fonts with a toner saving font can reduce the amount of toner used and minimize system resource usage that can slow printing s... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110096330 | MINIMIZING SPECTROPHOTOMETER IMPACT ON SPOT COLOR ACCURACY Differences between an offline spectrophotometer and an inline spectrophotometer can result in differences between a hardcopy target color and a printed reproduction of that color. The inline spectrophotometer is inside of a printer and configured to measure printer out... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110087785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING WORK AMONG A PLURALITY OF WORKERS Systems and methods for distributing work among a plurality of workers in a distributed environment using a granularity determinator module to determine a desired granularity of a data to be worked-on whereby each one of a plurality of document subcomponents individuall... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110078514 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTENANCE OF NETWORK RENDERING DEVICES A method and system for automatically generating a helpdesk ticket when a remote rendering device possesses a series of customer resolvable events within a time period. The helpdesk ticket can be moved into an active state when an alert associated with the customer reso... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110058238 | SPOT COLOR PRESS EMULATION COLOR TRANSFORMATION METHOD AND SYSTEM A spot color rendering system and method that incorporates spot color press emulation color transformation to preserve spot color on a target rendering device. A spot color rendering option implemented in a graphical user interface can be selected in order to render the... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110051154 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DARKENING OF IMAGE DATA A method and system for controlling the darkness level of image data to assist in output matching between dissimilar rendering devices. Image source information from a source file can be interpreted by a rendering decomposer in order to generate halftone source image da... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110029952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A DOCUMENT REDUNDANCY GRAPH A system and method for constructing a document redundancy graph with respect to a document set. The redundancy graph can be constructed with a node for each paragraph associated with the document set such that each node in the redundancy graph represents a unique clust... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026070 | PRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON SERVICE COST A print management system and method for optimizing cost associated with one or more rendering devices (e.g., printers) in a customer environment. A service cost associated with a rendering device can be included in the print management system so that end-users can have... | 02/03/2011 |
