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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7742182 | System and method of identifying a printer output tray A printing system that includes a personal computer and a printer having multiple output trays. The printer operates both as a server and a printer. The printer serves a program to the personal computer upon request. The program enables the personal computer to prin... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7656545 | System and method for dynamically providing printing status System and method for dynamically providing printing status. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7623255 | Printing device A printing device can transmit authentication data to a client computer remotely connected to the printing device. The authentication data can be used by the client computer to authenticate itself to a server computer. ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7515291 | Printing device A server system and a printing device are described. The server system can obtain environmental data that describes at least one environmental condition. The server system can transmit first data to the printing device. The first data is based upon the environmental... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7441852 | Printer A printer that includes a multi-colorant print cartridge is described. The printer can determine if a level of a most depleted colorant in the multi-colorant cartridge and a level of a least depleted colorant in the multi-colorant cartridge meet predetermined criter... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433101 | Method of defining a device color profile for a color output device A method of defining a device color profile is described. The method may include (a) storing a first set of color descriptions, wherein each color description describes a color of a different printed test patch in a first target and includes: (i) a set of color comp... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430053 | Tracking component usage in a printing device A printing device can receive a replaceable component that includes an integrated memory. The integrated memory can store an indicator for indicating a condition of the component. The printing device can retrieve the indicator from the integrated memory. The printin... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426049 | Printing retained print jobs A computing system including a printer capable of retaining print jobs, a first computer and a second computer. The first computer is capable of transmitting a print job to the printer that causes the printer to retain the job. The first computer is also operable to... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7335526 | Sensing system A ChemFET Sensing system is Described. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7236934 | Tailored method and system for custom manufactured books A book on demand system for manufacturing a set books. The system includes an order placement system and a book manufacturing system. The order placement system includes a computer and a database for storing books in an electronic form. A customer can operate the co... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7196803 | System and method for printing to a printer without the use of a print driver System and method for printing to a printer without the use of a print drive. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7064853 | Document printing system A printing system that includes a personal computer, a primary printer and an alternate printer is described. The primary printer and the alternate printer each include an embedded Web Server. The primary printer can serve a first program to the personal computer up... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064872 | Exposure control for a CCD scanner A scanner is disclosed that operates to maintain the image sensor in the scanner at a proper exposure level during the scanning of a page despite variations in the scan rate. The scanner includes an illumination system operable to produce light in response to receiv... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6912892 | Atomic force microscope An atomic force microscope for examining a sample is described. The atomic force microscope includes a probe assembly that includes a first tip and a second tip each directed towards a surface of a sample. The AFM further includes a source for applying a potential a... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6856420 | System and method for transferring data within a printer A printer is described. The printer includes a CPU, a DMA controller and an internal memory. The CPU and the DMA controller are each connected to a first memory bus. The internal memory is connected to a second memory bus. The printer further included an address tra... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6820124 | Cryptographic authentication using a network management protocol A computer is provided that is able to participate in a challenge-response authentication routine by using a network management protocol. In one embodiment, a first computer issues a challenge to a second computer by transmitting an SNMP SetRequest message to the se... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6792216 | System for estimating the remaining life of a print cartridge A printing system is described. The printing system includes a printer capable of utilizing print material contained by a cartridge. The printer is capable of detecting when the level of the print material is at a different one of a plurality of pre-determined level... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6629273 | Detection of silent data corruption in a storage system A storage system is described that includes a controller and a disk array. The controller operates to coordinate data transfers between the disk array and an external host computer in response to I/O commands received from the host computer. The controlle... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6611880 | System for selecting a device over a network for a computer to use A computer automatically selects a device, such as a printer, over a network for the computer to use without a user having to provide the network address of the device. The computer identifies a group of devices connected to a network that meet certain pr... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6608693 | Apparatus and method for generating a print job from a command stream describing multiple copies of a document Apparatus and method for generating a print job from a device driver interface command stream (command stream) is described. The command stream describes multiple collated copies of a document but is in an undifferentiated form. The print job that is gene... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6594385 | Image compression of background and text tiles A compression apparatus for compressing a digital image is disclosed and includes a decomposer, a transform encoder unit and a merge plane compressor. The digital image is converted by the compression apparatus into a set of tiles suitable for transform e... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6583887 | Method and apparatus for data compression Compression apparatus is described that operates to select an optimum compression procedure to apply to received image data. The compression apparatus can be employed in a page printer having a print engine that must be provided with video data at a const... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6556926 | System for determining when a component in a printer should be replaced A computer is provided that monitors one or more printers over a network in order to determine when new components in each of the printers should be replaced. Each time a printer prints a document, the printer sends a signal to the computer. The computer ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6512592 | Apparatus and method for generating multiple original prints Disclosed is a printer for receiving a print job from a document processing device The print job including a preamble section, print data describing a single copy of a document and a trailer section. The trailer section including a command indicating the ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6504995 | Apparatus and method for storing compressed data to a storage device Apparatus for writing compressed data to a storage device having multiple storage areas. The apparatus identifies one or more storage areas to receive the compressed data based upon the compression ratio of the compressed data and the characteristic trans... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6490544 | System for testing a multi-tasking computing device A test system for testing a multitasking computing device, such as a RAID storage device is described. The multitasking computing device is responsive to an inject fault command by entering a pre-determined mode of operation wherein the device maintains i... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6487636 | Method and apparatus for mapping data in a heterogeneous disk array storage system A RAID data storage system includes a heterogenous disk array coupled to a controller. The disk array provides a storage space that includes a first set of stipes each having at least "N" blocks and a second set of stripes each having less than "N" blocks... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6452516 | System and method for encoding and decoding data A computer operable to encode a string of tokens is described. The computer operates to identify a group of tokens in the string. The identified group of tokens are those tokens that follow a token having a first value. The computer further operates to as... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6415058 | System for compression of digital images comprising low detail areas A computer for compressing a digital image. The computer is operable to decompose a digital image into a set of tiles and to classify certain tiles from the set as being low detail tiles. The computer is further operable to transform each tile from the se... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6362756 | System and method for compressing data A computer operable to encode a string of tokens is described. The string of tokens includes a group of tokens that immediately follow a token having a first value. The Computer operates to select a token value that occurs most often in the group. The com... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6359642 | Printer control system The present disclosure describes techniques that can be used to reduce the time required for a printer or printing system to generate printed output. Printers are provided that operate to move from an idle mode into a print mode upon receiving a PRE-START... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6175423 | Image forming system for arranging plurality of images on a disk play medium Image forming system for arranging a plurality of images onto a selected display medium. The image forming system provides capability to determine an optimized layout pattern for one or more sub-pages on a designated print medium. This system may be used ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6161009 | Latency time determination system for a transceiver A system to determine the length of time, known as the latency time, that is required to wait between transmitting and receiving data for a half-duplex electromagnetic transceiver having a transmitter and receiver wherein the receiver is electromagnetical... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6161155 | Apparatus and method for storing retrievable boundary information into a buffer memory of a receiving device Apparatus and method for storing retrievable boundary information into a buffer memory of a receiving device. In one arrangement, the boundary information is used to indicate where a block of data ends in the buffer memory. In another arrangement, the bou... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6138186 | Burst transfer management system utilizing pointers to ensure that there is enough space in a buffer to receive burst transfers without corrupting data A system for managing burst data transfers from a sending device to the buffer memory of a receiving device and for managing read operations upon the buffer memory after receiving data. In one arrangement, the system includes data management apparatus tha... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6130630 | Apparatus and method for compressing Huffman encoded data Apparatus and method for compressing Huffman encoded data. The compression apparatus includes a string detector and a record generator. The compression apparatus operates to receive the Huffman encoded data and the length of the codewords used to generate... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6094278 | Method and apparatus for reducing printer memory A system for reducing memory resources required to process a print job having common page print data. Reduction of memory resources is accomplished by first analyzing pages from an application for common page aspects and unique page aspects. The common pa... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6050514 | Tape block and take-up reel assembly for a magnetic tape transport system A tape block and take-up reel assembly for use in a non-continuous cartridge based magnetic tape transport system. The take-up reel assembly includes a leader tape and a leader block. The tape block connection features and the leader block receiving featu... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6003855 | Multiple media sheet stack selection mechanism A multiple media sheet stack selection mechanism for selectively presenting multiple media sheet stacks to the same sheet separation and feed mechanism. The multiple media stack selection mechanism includes a primary sheet holder and at least one secondar... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5979813 | Tape threading apparatus A threading apparatus for threading tape from a single reel magnetic tape cartridge through a tape transport machine. The threading apparatus includes a leader block and a take-up reel. The take-up reel includes a leader block receiving section that is ad... | 11/09/1999 |
