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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179545 | Adaptive configuration of imaging devices A method and apparatus for configuring an imaging device is provided. A first imaging device may monitor communications exchanged between clients and imaging devices over a network to identify requests to process electronic documents. In response to the first imagin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164767 | Print driver with processed print data management capability A print driver is configured to store, retrieve and re-print processed print data that has been generated by the print driver. Processed print data may be stored locally or remotely and may be stored in a secure manner. The print driver may also be configured to sav... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151363 | Approach for securely processing an electronic document A method and apparatus for processing an electronic document in a secure manner is provided. A client may verify that the configuration state of a standalone document-processing device has not changed since a prior configuration state by issuing a request to a secur... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139245 | Managing the processing of print data at printing devices based upon available consumable resources An approach is provided for managing the processing of print data at a printing device based upon available consumable resources. A printing device includes a print process configured to determine consumable resources that are currently available at the printing dev... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130951 | Intelligent electronic document content processing A network device includes a content processing module that is configured to perform intelligent document content processing, such as confidential information processing, content optimization and workflow optimization. The network device authenticates a user and dete... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121958 | Approach for determining alternative printing device arrangements According to one embodiment of the invention, an approach is provided for determining alternative printing device arrangements. In general, the geographic locations, usage and costs of an existing set of printing devices are analyzed. A determination is made, based ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121043 | Approach for managing the consumption of resources using adaptive random sampling An approach for managing the consumption of resources uses adaptive random sampling to decrease the collection of flow statistical data as the consumption of resources increases. When a packet is received from a network, a determination is made whether the packet be... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115951 | Approach for implementing locked printing with unlock via a user input device An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with unlock via a keypad attached to the printing device via an interface. A user may specify for printing print jobs stored at a printing device using a keypad device to enter a job ID as... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111413 | Approach for securely printing policy-enabled electronic documents based on print driver and printing device support An approach is provided for securely printing policy-enabled electronic documents. According to the approach, a determination is made at a client device whether policy-enabled printing has been specified for a particular electronic document. If policy-enabled printi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107103 | Print driver for printing policy-enabled electronic documents using locked printing An approach is provided for printing policy-enabled electronic documents using locked printing. A client device includes a user interface, an application program and a print driver. The application program allows a user to generate an electronic document. The print ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104084 | Authorizing a user to a device A method and apparatus for authorizing a user is provided. A requestor submits a request for challenge data to a device. The device generates the challenge data and provides the challenge data to the requestor. The requestor obtains response data that is responsive ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8058889 | Probe card with segmented substrate A probe card for testing of semiconductor dice is provided. The probe card includes a mounting plate and a plurality of substrate segments supported by the mounting plate. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058887 | Probe card assembly with interposer probes A probe test card assembly for testing a device under test includes interposer probes to connect a printed circuit board to a substrate. The probe test card assembly includes a printed circuit board, a substrate and a substrate holder. A plurality of test probes is ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050953 | Use of a database in a network-based project schedule management system A system is used for the creation, maintenance, and management of an overall project schedule, of individual project member schedules, and of project task assignments over a network. The system comprises three editors accessed through a web browser to perform the va... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031349 | Approach for securely printing electronic documents An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031348 | Approach for securely printing electronic documents An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026734 | Dual tip test probe assembly A dual tip test probe assembly for use in both cantilever and vertical probe applications includes first and second elongated test probes, each having a body portion and a tip portion with a tip configured to make contact with a device under test. An electrically-in... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023899 | Approach for selecting communications channels in communication systems to avoid interference An approach for selecting communications channels to be used by a communication system includes evaluating for the presence of one or more signals both a particular communications channel currently being used by the communication system and one or more other communi... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023575 | Approach for spectrum analysis in a receiver A wireless communications apparatus that it is useable as a spectrum analyzer and as a wireless receiver. The wireless communications apparatus has a radio circuit that is configured to receive EM radiation. Signal processing logic receives signals from the radio ci... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005936 | Method and system to erase data by overwriting after expiration or other condition An approach for managing print data on printing devices includes deleting print data that has been stored on a printing device for at least a specified time. The deletion of the print data based on whether the print data has been stored on the printing device for at... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7987447 | Approach for automatically generating program code Programming the creation of a software system is facilitated by automating the generation of some of the program code that is necessary for the software system. The generation of program code may be automated based on a software design specification that can be crea... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974236 | Approach for configuring Wi-Fi devices According to an approach for configuring Wi-Fi devices, a wireless access point changes its mode of operation from a normal operating mode to a configuration operating mode to configure one or more Wi-Fi devices. When operating in the configuration operating mode, i... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973962 | Optimized printing of electronic documents Approaches for the optimized printing of electronic documents are provided. The approaches are applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and include generating an estimated processing time for an electronic document and reporting the estimated pro... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7941445 | Managing project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data and revision numbers A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved se... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7898276 | Probe card with stacked substrate A probe card is provided including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a plurality of conductive wires extending between the first substrate and the second substrate. The conductive wires are fixed (a) at a first end to a contact of the first substrate, and (... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7848406 | Digital pulse width modulator A DPWM (1) has a delay lock loop (4) which receives an input clock signal and provides an out-of-phase delayed clock at the output of each of eight delay cells (35). A multiplexer (5) selects one of the delay cell outputs at any one time.... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7870039 | Automatic product categorization Techniques are provided for automatic product categorization. In one aspect, the categorization is based on text and one or more other values associated with a product offering. In another aspect, a first categorization of a product offering is performed and, if the... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861227 | Software development environment with design specification validation tool An automated software class specification validation tool automatically determines, for functions defined in a function definition section of a class specification, whether the function is properly declared throughout one or more other sections of the same class spe... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860308 | Approach for near duplicate image detection A content-based approach is provided for detecting near duplicate images. The approach generally involves analyzing the content of images to be compared and generating color and texture histogram descriptor data for each image. The images may then be compared based ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7817309 | Double filter fax cover page An approach is provided wherein a banner page is detected and modified to insert information appropriate for a fax cover page. According to one embodiment, a user submits a document to the OS printing sub-system with a banner page option enabled. The banner page is ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7808664 | Approach for securely printing electronic documents An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805134 | Configuration and management of wireless network devices An approach is provided wherein a lack of wireless connectivity between a wireless network device and a wireless network is detected, and the wireless network device connects to an administrator device over a separate wireless network. Network configuration data is ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804612 | Network printing with driverless clients A method and mechanism for a client causing an electronic document to be printed without using a printer driver installed on the client is provided. A client discovers one or more printing devices on a network. The client communicates with a discovered printing devi... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796760 | Approach for managing access to messages using encryption key management policies Controlling access to disseminated messages includes implementing one or more key management policies that specify how various encryption keys are maintained and in particular, when encryption keys are made inaccessible. Deleting a particular key renders inaccessibl... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793257 | Technique for automating code generation in developing software systems Programming the creation of a software system is facilitated by automating the generation of some of the program code that is necessary for the software system. The generation of program code may be automated based on a software design specification that can be crea... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788712 | Managing access to a document-processing device using an identification token A method and apparatus for accessing a document-processing device is provided. A request to access the document-processing device is received by the document-processing device. For example, the request may be a request to configure the document-processing device or ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7733104 | Low force interconnects for probe cards A probe test card assembly for testing of a device under test includes a printed circuit board, a substrate and a substrate support structure. The substrate support structure holds the substrate in position with respect to the printed circuit board. The substrate su... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730339 | Remote wake-up from an energy-saving mode A method and apparatus for communicating with a device is provided. A user views a graphical user interface displayed on a client. For example, the graphical user interface may correspond to a web page or a graphical user interface of an operating system. The graphi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7703125 | Approach for deleting electronic documents on network devices using document retention policies An approach is provided for deleting electronic documents using a document retention policy that specifies one or more deletion criteria for documents belonging to each of a plurality of document classifications. The document retention policy is defined by document ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697851 | User initiated alerts in a document processing environment A method and apparatus for processing electronic documents is provided. A request, from a first user, to issue an alert to a second user that may have submitted a print request to the printing device is received at the printing device. The printing device may be att... | 04/13/2010 |
