Quotables
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
Dave Barry
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7784087 | System and method for securely sharing electronic documents A system and method for the selective sharing of an electronic document. The method enables a user to share access to an electronic document stored on a repository on a document management system. A user, via a document processing services network, generates a passw... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7768663 | System and method for printing books by book identification A system and method for efficiently copying books. According to the system and method, a user inputs a book identification into a peripheral device to cause the peripheral device to access an electronic version of the book. Upon so accessing, the peripheral is adapt... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7735143 | System and method for secure document processing This invention is directed to a system and method for secure document processing. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for secure document processing wherein a user has the ability to confidentially generate or print a document withou... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730449 | Auto reference counting pointer for C++ objects with ability to re-cast and lookup from a free pointer A self reference-counting pointer that keeps the reference count of the object within the pointer-object that does not impose any restrictions on the object itself and can be used freely on objects already created. A reference count object is created and is attached... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7730393 | System and method for providing fee-based data services to mobile users The present invention is directed to a system and method to allow users to access and use data services, and then charge for such services using a point of sale system. Information about various services capable of being performed by a multifunction peripheral devic... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7676668 | System and method for monitoring configuration changes in a document processing device The subject application is directed to a method and system for notifying an administrator when a user of a document processing device requests a change in the configuration of the device. A user accesses the device via a user interface, requesting alteration of the ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672880 | Automated accounting system, method and computer-readable medium for MFP devices The present invention is directed to a system and method for automated accounting of document reading device usage. The system and method include a configurable accounting agent adapted to automatically generate usage reports of the document generating device and tr... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7665133 | System and method for monitoring processing in a document processing peripheral This invention is directed to a system and method for monitoring the processes of a document processing peripheral, including unauthorized access thereof. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for monitoring the processes of a document... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661142 | System and method for tracking feature usage in a document processing environment This invention is directed to a system and method for tracing and monitoring feature usage in a document processing environment. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for tracking and monitoring the use of features, services, or functi... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657608 | Method and system for distributing a document to at least one destination This invention is related to a document distribution system, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a document distribution system that reduces network traffic. The present invention is directed to a method and system for distributing a document to ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656547 | System and method for optimized routing of print jobs This invention is directed to a system and method for optimized routing of print jobs. The system and method comprise queuing print job data, selectively communicating the print job data to at least one of a plurality of associated printer devices so as to generate ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652798 | System and method for storing of print job data This invention is directed to a system and method for storing print jobs. The system and method comprise acquiring print job data representative of a desired print job, which print job data is comprised of a PDL format associated with a selected printer device and s... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7639807 | System and method for encryption of image data in a networked environment This invention is directed to a system and method for the encryption of image data in a networked environment. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for encrypting documents or data generated via an associated image generating device. | 12/29/2009 |
| 7616778 | System and method for applying watermarks A system and method for selectively inserting a digital watermark into a visual rendering by an image processing device. The image processing device receives an image processing request including image data of an associated document. The request is then analyzed to ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616341 | System and method for metadata controlled multi-configured halftone screening The present invention is directed to a system and method for halftone screening. A system for halftone screening includes a memory including a look-up table, the look-up table including screen frequency data representative of the selected screen frequencies for an a... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609398 | System and method for rendering fonts for tabbed paper stock on a network This invention is directed to a system and method for storing font image data, which is already rendered, in a history-based order on the server side. This avoids the server side processing time to render the font every time a request is received. This allows users ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7584482 | System and method for authenticating transactions A system and method for authenticating document processing transactions wherein the transaction is rejected if the user is not within a selected geographical region. A transaction request is first received representing a request for the completion of a selected tran... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7584089 | Method of encoding and decoding for multi-language applications An architecture for universal data communication between a network client and a web server. A web server receives a character string from the network client for storing. The web server encodes and then stores the string. Any character that is not a 7 bit ASCII chara... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580145 | Method and apparatus for effective job management The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for the job management of document processing wherein job management is divided into a pipeline assembly phase and a job processing phase. The job manager is heavily involved in the pipeline assembly phase.... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7571126 | System and method for document processing operation accounting A system and method for accounting for document processing operations. Notification data is received from a networked document processing device, which indicates the presence on the network of the document processing device. Accounting data is then communicated to t... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7557962 | System and method for tone-dependent multi-frequency halftone screening The present invention is directed to a system and method for halftone screening. A system for halftone screening includes means adapted to receive image data having a desired number of tonal levels representative of a continuous tone image and means adapted to compr... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7548325 | Method and system to manage multiple format fonts in an image generating device The present invention is directed to a method and system for managing multiple format fonts in an image generating device. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method and system to store a font in a selected storage area, remove a selected font ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7535588 | System and method to communicate to controller mapped by print server The present invention is directed to a method and system for a printer driver to retrieve information from a printer mapped to a printer server. A printer driver residing on a client machine searches for all printers accessible by the client machine. A user is then ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7526555 | Smart card printing A system utilizing a Bluetooth enabled smart card to authenticate a user and provide the user with access to a service. The Bluetooth smart card system is comprised of a server and a client. The server is the component that resides on the device that provides the se... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7518752 | System and method for two color document rendering A system and method for converting an image to a constrained color palette representation receives a specified color or hue from which an image is to be defined. A conversion is then made from an input color space to a CIELAB representation. Data is converted in CIE... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7511852 | System and method for variable copying or reproducing a plurality of documents This invention is directed to a system and method for variable copying or reproducing for a plurality of documents. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for reproducing a large quantity of documents wherein certain selected informatio... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7506801 | Document audit trail system and method This invention is directed to a document audit trail system and method for tracking and auditing document processing operations performed on and distribution of an electronic document. This invention allows information relating to the source of an electronic documen... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506160 | System and method for enhanced data security in office machine environment The present invention is directed to a system and method for adding data encryption services to a document processing device. Encryption enablement software, which includes two alternate encryption mechanisms, is received by an associated document processing device.... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503067 | Preset security levels A preset security level system and a method for utilizing the preset security level system. The system includes a plurality of security levels, each of which enables a different level of security. Each of the security levels has associated therewith security feature... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502466 | System and method for secure communication of electronic documents The present invention is directed to a system and method for secure communication of electronic documents to a document processing device. A document processing request containing electronic document data is received containing document data in an unencrypted form. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7489417 | USB print The invention is directed to a system and interface wherein a multifuntion copier, equipped with a Universal Serial Bus port, accepts data directly from a USB-Data Storage Device (USB-DSD) for the purpose of printing, e-mailing, and faxing. The system contains a cop... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7478421 | System and method for role based access control of a document processing device A system and method for controlling access to a document processing device based on roles assigned to user groups. Each group of users has certain functions for which they are authorized to use the document processing device. The device compares a username and passw... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7478383 | System and method for remotely securing software updates of computer systems A method for providing a subscription service wherein a remote host enables the automatic receipt at a customer site of the most recent updates, patches, or fixes for services the customer site is running. The remote host uses a secured private port to transfer the ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466445 | Color and density calibration of color printers A method for performing visual calibrations on a color printer. For calibrating relative intensities of colors, a predetermined image is printed by an image output apparatus. A user then selects a bias color and an intensity from a reference. The image output appara... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7460260 | Method of providing continuous feedback A feedback component which adds on to a spooler and utilizes the spooler's connectivity with the network clients for communications. The network clients connect to the feedback component through the spooler's application programming interface (API) by making a reque... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7451117 | System and method for digital payment of document processing services This invention is directed to a system and method for the digital payment of document processing services. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method which uses a pre-paid or digital payment mechanism to charge for document processing servi... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450271 | System and method for optimizing image output quality The present invention is directed to a system and method for parameter based visual characteristic control. The system includes input means adapted for receiving image data representative of at least one visual characteristic of an associated image. The system furth... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450133 | System and method for color correction This invention is directed to a system and method for performing color corrections on color image data. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for performing color corrections on color image data in a primary color system. This inventio... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7436978 | System and method for applying watermarks A system and method for selectively inserting a digital watermark into a visual rendering by an image processing device. The image processing device receives an image processing request including image data of an associated document. The request is then analyzed to ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433080 | System and method for conversion of duotone images for display A method for processing an image. The method includes receiving an image having image values and described in a first color space and determining the image color space from a received image. Image values in the first color space are associated with values in a secon... | 10/07/2008 |
