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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127525 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SETTING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION SETTING METHOD In an image forming apparatus, setting information is stored in a storage part for a function which the, image forming apparatus operates based on the setting information. An acquisition request of common setting information is sent to an information processing apparatu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127507 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR MISSING RESOURCES A method of searching for missing resources associated with an image forming apparatus, which includes the steps of: forwarding a print job having a resource call-out from a host computer to an image forming apparatus; receiving the print job on the image forming appara... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REDIRECTING JOBS IN A DEVICE COMMUNITY A system and method for automatically redirecting a job in a community of networked devices. A peer-based device community can be created by connecting at least two networked devices utilizing a manual/self-discovery approach based on a set of rules and policies in orde... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127509 | Activation Code Provided with Discrete Increment of Paper Substrate for Activating Remotely Accessible Printer Controller Software A system which has an electronic database for entry of an activation code provided with a discrete increment of a printable paper substrate and printer controller software for use with the printable paper substrate which is remotely accessible and which is activated aft... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127522 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM An information processing device includes a processing unit which manages an association processing network formed by image processing devices. The processing unit includes a service evaluation content generating unit which acquires requirement performance information o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127527 | Image Forming Apparatus, Information Setting System, And Information Setting Method In an image forming apparatus, setting information is stored in a storage part for a function which the image forming apparatus operates based on the setting information. An acquisition request of common setting information is sent to an information processing apparatus... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127521 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD IN WHICH IMAGE IS FORMED WITH APPROVAL OF MANAGEMENT USER An image forming apparatus forms an image with approval of a management user and includes a presence checking unit, a job receiving unit, and an approval requesting unit. The presence checking unit determines whether or not the management user is present at a predetermi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127512 | BRANCH OFFICE DIRECT PRINTING Methods and apparatus for printing by a client computer reduce network usage and print delay, while performing print configuration and management at a centralized print server. The print server controls enablement of a branch office printing mode. When the branch office... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127520 | OPERATION PANEL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Provided is an operation panel using a touch panel method disposed on an image forming apparatus, wherein a CPU judges whether the same coordinate of an input section is in a pressurization when the operation panel is turned on and whether the first time period has elap... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127514 | PROCESSING REUSABLE AND SPECIFIC CONTENT An apparatus adapted to process VDP print job for digital printing includes a plurality of processing elements wherein each of the processing elements is adapted to receive a chunk of the VDP print job for processing. A coordination element is adapted to coordinate betw... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127528 | REMOVABLE MEDIA SPINDLE AND ANTENNA ASSEMBLY FOR PRINTER A removable spindle for use in a thermal transfer printer houses dual RFID reader antennas that are used to read an RFID tag attached to the core of the print media. The information provided by the RFID tag enables the printer to self-calibrate based on the type of medi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127524 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM In a device management system, device managers are connected to communication devices and connected to an information processing device. Each device manager includes an acquisition part to acquire the device information from a communication device, a first management pa... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127523 | PRINTING DEVICES AND TERMINAL DEVICES THAT SWITCH COMMUNICATION MODES A communication system includes a printing device, a terminal device, and another device. The printing device includes a communication interface that enables communication through at least two modes; an operating portion that accepts a mode-switch instruction; a printin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127526 | PRINTER CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM Provided is a printer driver including: a first function which generates a first printing job which prints a document; a second function which generates a second printing job which prints information on the first printing job; a third function which outputs the second p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127515 | Mechanism for Automatically Disabling Printer Separator Pages A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job, analyzing the print job data stream, determining if the print job data stream includes a command matching one or more pre-defined criteria and disabling generation of a separator page for ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127513 | PROCESSING REUSABLE AND SPECIFIC CONTENT A method for processing a variable data processing (VDP) print job for digital printing including the steps of providing a VDP print job to a computer wherein the print job is described by a page description language (PDL); splitting the print job into plurality of PDL ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128142 | System for Interconnecting Standard Telephony Communications Equipment to Internet Apparatus includes a communication predelivery receiver, configured to communicate with and relay both IP addressed overhead and IP addressed payload data from an originating communication device. The communication predelivery receiver includes a screener configured to,... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127529 | System and Method for Proximity-Based Printing A system and method for proximity-based printing are disclosed. A method may include communicating access point proximity information from an information handling system to a print server, the access point proximity information including information regarding the proxim... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127517 | Image forming apparatus and power control method thereof An image forming apparatus and a power control method thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit which forms an image; a power supply which supplies operating power for the image forming apparatus; a switching circuit unit which sw... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127516 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF Another embodiment of the invention provides a print system including a portable device having first data; a third party; and a print server. The printer server connects to at least one printer, wherein when the portable device wants to print the first data, the portabl... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127519 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A client PC generates and spools data for print according to a user's printing operation, and generates identification information for identifying itself from its own IP address to present it to the user. When the identification information is input in a multifunction p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127518 | POWER-SUPPLY MONITORING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS A power-supply monitoring device includes a power-supply control section, a detection section, a determination section, a control section, and an attachment section. The power-supply control section receives supply of power from a mains power source section, and selecti... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127506 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR MISSING RESOURCES A method of searching for missing resources associated with an image forming apparatus, which includes forwarding a print job having a resource call-out from a host computer to an image forming apparatus; receiving the print job on the image forming apparatus; checking ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127508 | Mechanism for Controlling Secure Print Jobs A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job, processing the print job data stream, determining if a condition occurs during processing of the print job data stream that matches one or more pre-defined criteria and inserting one or mo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127501 | Print Data Processing Method, Print Data Processing Device, And Print Data Processing System A print data processing method can generate print data for duplex printing so that the scanning accuracy of a barcode printed on one side of a receipt is not reduced by a logo or other graphic that is printed on the other side of the receipt. Whether or not a linear bar... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127498 | PRINTER COMPATABILITY MATRIX An exemplary method or device determines which print drivers are being used within a printing environment. The method or device identifies a plurality of print queues. Each of the print queues is associated with one of the print drivers. The method or device submits a p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105912 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM An information processing apparatus transmits a print job to a printer after performing print setting processing for variable print data. An operation information setting unit receives print setting information in which the leading page of each of the records is specifi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105910 | CONVERTER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONNECTED THERETO A converter device supplied with a drive power from an image forming apparatus instead of an external device and an image forming apparatus connected to the converter device. The converter device is provided between the image forming apparatus including a power supply p... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105911 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING AN INTERMEDIATE FILL WITH A PLURALITY OF OBJECTS A method of associating a shared fill with a plurality of objects, is disclosed. Each of the objects is associated with a fill. A bounding region of the shared fill is determined based on a fill of a first of the plurality of objects. The first object is associated with... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRINT JOBS In a system and method for managing print jobs of a printer, when the printer acquires a print job, the print job is stored in a buffer having a corresponding priority level of the print job. A first buffer that stores one or more print jobs and has a higher priority le... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105908 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREIN AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF An information processing apparatus connectable to a server which manages print data, and a printer which prints based on the print data receives the print data from the server, and transfers the received print data to the printer by each first data size. When a disconn... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105904 | RECEIPT VERIFICATION OF PRINT JOBS IN AN AUTOMATED DOCUMENT FACTORY ENVIRONMENT Methods and systems are provided for verifying the receipt of print jobs submitted to an Automated Document Factory (ADF) system from a client. The ADF system receives a print work summary from the client indicating print jobs scheduled for submission to the ADF system.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105877 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit and a restriction unit. The determination unit determines an image forming capability of each of the image forming apparatus and a different image forming apparatus, an image being formed on a printing medium that... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105431 | Previsualization for large format print jobs Large format print jobs are previsualized in context. A print job source image is received. At least one 3D environment is received, including one or more designated insertion sites to receive the print job source image. One or more images or videos are produced, visual... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105887 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME An image formation apparatus configured to execute print processing, includes an information storage configured to store print-limit information and notification-destination information set for each user. The print-limit information includes at least one of a print cond... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105905 | System and Method for Operation of Document Processing Devices Via Portable Data Devices The subject application is directed to a system and method for operation of document processing devices via portable data devices. A wireless data connection is established between a document processing device including a processor and associated data storage and an ass... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105892 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING METHOD AND IMAGE READING SYSTEM To keep track of which process each process job currently exits and when it comes in own charge or which job must be processed, it is necessary to use a workflow system on a PC, and this necessitates to move back and force between the PC and the apparatus, thereby leadi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105903 | NETWORKED THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING Three-dimensional fabrication resources are improved by adding networking capabilities to three-dimensional printers and providing a variety of tools for networked use of three-dimensional printers. Web-based servers or the like can provide a single point of access for ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105909 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes an execution portion configured to execute a job, a providing portion configured to provide a Web page in response to a request, a determination portion configured to determine a time-out period, which is a period during which a re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105906 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD Disclosed is a printing system and method for printing documents over a network. The system comprises: a document server connected to the network, the documents being accessible via the document server; a client device connected to the network and adapted to transmit a ... | 05/03/2012 |
