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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169668 | Image processing apparatus and file transmission method An image processing apparatus is premised on the assumption that it is connected to a policy server. If no access policy is given to a file to be transmitted, the image processing apparatus forms definition information for defining an access policy, and registers th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8085445 | Method to certify facsimile transmissions The invention is directed to techniques of facilitating document transmission from one entity through an electronic communications network. An entity may be a legally recognized person such as a corporation, partnership, organization, government, individual, and the... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7869098 | Scanning verification and tracking system and method A method and device are provided for assigning a task to a user to verify information from a scanned document. An image, a data item, and a data field are presented to a user. The image is associated with at least a section of a scanned document. The data item is id... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7830558 | Digital camera and controlling method therefor In a digital camera performing wireless communication, the communication speed of the wireless communication is changed according to the state of the wireless communication, and a clock frequency associated with producing packet data according to the changed communi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7715059 | Facsimile system, method and program product with junk fax disposal A method, system and program product for comparing a junk fax image stored in a database to an incoming facsimile image to determine whether the incoming facsimile image is a junk fax. If the facsimile image is a junk fax, the image is either deleted or the communic... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7443548 | Systems and methods for creating a single electronic scanned job from multiple scanned documents This invention provides systems and methods that use a meta job description that combines a number of scan jobs into a single combined job and use a meta job description that incorporates the scan parameters for a plurality of scan. Scanning documents with a meta jo... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7420704 | System and method for color gamut inadequacy notification The present disclosure relates to a system and method for color gamut inadequacy notification. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to accessing imaging data to be printed, identifying colors represented by the imaging data, comparing the identified col... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414744 | Method for tracking internet fax jobs A method for tracking facsimile jobs may be employed to examine, at an originating device, an incoming facsimile transmission for information indicating that the transmission originated at the originating device, in which case the incoming message is determined to b... | 08/19/2008 |
| RE40454 | Job information communication system for a printing system A transmission job originating station for controlling transmission of job information, based on the processing of a print job in a printing system, is provided. The control system includes a document generating subsystem for providing at least a portion of the prin... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397575 | Communication apparatus and method having electronic mail communication function, and program There are provided a communication apparatus and method that enables the retransmission of an electronic mail if an error occurs in the transmission of the electronic mail due to its excessive data size, by reducing the data capacity of the electronic mail without t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394573 | System for authenticating hardcopy documents A system authenticates an original hardcopy document using a digital signature generation system and a digital signature verification system. Initially, the original hardcopy document is scanned to provide a bitmap image to the signature generation system. The bitma... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394559 | Network facsimile device and a method of controlling the network facsimile device A network facsimile device connected to the Internet or a local area network, employs an electronic mail function, and has a function of exchanging image information through said Internet or said local area network and functions of a facsimile device. The device com... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385738 | Read module, poor connection detection apparatus and poor connection detection method of read module A read module includes: a light source that applies light to an original to read an image; a photoelectric conversion section that converts reflected light from the original into an image signal of the image; and a connector to be electrically connected to a control... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382844 | Methods to self-synchronize clocks on multiple chips in a system A method of self-synchronizing clocks in a multiple chip system, by assigning one chip as the master chip and the other chips as slave chips. A training signal is sent from master chip to the slave chips to determine the latency from the master chip to a slave chip,... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383494 | Generating a confirmation sheet listing identifiers, thumbnails, and pages associated with page thumbnails Typical confirmation sheets include a general job status and a reduced image of the first page of the job. This may be sufficient for a job comprising a single service and a single destination or recipient. The confirmation sheet would be more useful if it provided ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7367667 | Image forming apparatus with conveying part arranged to allow drying An image forming apparatus has a recording head forming an image on paper by jetting ink, a conveying part conveying the paper to a position opposite to said recording head, and a reversing ejection part provided downstream in a paper conveyance direction with respe... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364282 | Printer cartridge including infrared absorbing ink A printer cartridge for a printer that can print visible information and invisible information that is invisible to the human eye but can be read by an optical reader. The cartridge stores the various inks for print visible information as well as infrared absorbing ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365884 | Facsimile telecommunications system and method A system and method for facilitating facsimile transmissions has one or more store and forward facilities, each associated with a plurality of subscriber facsimile machines, typically coupled over the switched telephone network. The store and forward facsimiles incl... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366757 | Communication apparatus, communication method, communication system, and storage medium Image data communication equivalent to facsimile communication using a public network is realized on e-mail communication. When a communication apparatus for transmitting/receiving e-mail data by connecting to the Internet is to communicate e-mail data having facsim... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365889 | System and method for transparency optimization One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if the document formatting is not optimized for transparency printing. An... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362460 | Techniques for managing automatic folding functionality in facsimile protocol Support for automatic folding functionality in facsimile (“fax”) machines is described. In one aspect, a method for managing folding by a fax machine comprises sending a signal from a receiver fax machine (“receiver”) indicating that the receiver has folding... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359098 | System and method for testing scan and fax jobs A system and method for testing scan and fax jobs includes receiving a job request from a user to scan or fax an image, the job request including one or more parameters, providing a test image based on the one or more parameters for the job request, generating a tes... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357300 | Method and apparatus for tracking documents in a workflow A workflow system and method include tracking the physical movement of documents. The information of the physical movement is incorporated with the flow graph of a workflow. A display of the workflow can then be enhanced by the information relating to the physical m... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355758 | Automated facsimile monitoring and displaying methods and related systems Automated facsimile monitoring methods, systems, and computer program products can track response data from multiple facsimiles sent to different locations and generate electronically accessible failure reports to allow for error or faults to be tracked and assessed... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349116 | Design-to-ship enabled shipping device in a commercial printing environment and managing workflow for use with same A design-to-ship enabled shipping device in a commercial printing environment and method for managing workflow for use with the same. The present invention provides a method, program product and system for managing workflow in a commercial printing environment inclu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340048 | System and method for directory services and e-commerce across multi-provider networks The present invention solves the problem of cross-provider access proprietary information between unaffiliated and competing network providers, but not allow that information to be disclosed to competing providers. The invention provides a system that allows increas... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333247 | Image capturing apparatus When in single-sided capturing mode(s), because image(s) of both sides of first original sheet(s) is or are captured by first and second capturing components 10, 23, front side(s) of the original(s) being identified based on the image(s) of both sides of the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330288 | Post RIP image rendering in a MICR electrographic printer to improve readability A method of printing an image with a printer having magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) toning capability, the method comprising the steps of: converting the image into a digital bitmap comprised of an array of pixels wherein each pixel is assigned a digital v... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330283 | Method for controlling error of internet fax data Provided are a method for controlling errors of an Internet fax data according to the statue of a network by using a receiver report (RR) message in a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) and a gateway to which the method is applied. Therefore, transmission e... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325727 | Personal account protection system A security system for a transaction card having a magnetized strip, protection icon, account number, name, and expiration date displayed visually on an external portion of the card is provided. The protection icon is adjacent the account number. A personal identific... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320019 | Method and apparatus for automatically checking e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications The present invention provides a system and method for detecting incorrect e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications. In a first embodiment, a domain name database creates a table of domain names by automatically storing the domain names of e-mail addresses... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318085 | Communication apparatus for allowing data reception in specific master or slave unit depending on request forwarded to remote center A facsimile machine has a base unit and a plurality of handsets. The base unit receives e-mail data from a remote center, and the handsets receive e-mail data via the base unit. When one of the base unit and the handsets requests the remote center to transmit e-mail... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312904 | Apparatus, method and program for communication Facsimile communication is correctly performed even when an echo is generated in a communication line having a delay, by handling an echo signal in such a manner that when an echo of a CFR signal (according to the ITU-T recommendation V.21) transmitted from a receiv... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310160 | Facsimile communication apparatus and method permitting reliable V.17 communication This invention is to provide a facsimile communication apparatus and method in which when a receiver which supports V.34 communication receives a call, transmits an ANSam signal, and receives a CM signal indicating V.17 communication from the transmitter, V.17 commu... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310156 | Printing system, printing method, digital camera, storage medium and program for printing method, and printing control apparatus Conventionally, when due to running out of a battery or paper the printing designated in advance is not completed and when the interrupted printing is to be resumed, the images from the beginning must be printed, or images to be printed must be selected again using ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301658 | Device transmission tracking An object is optically scanned to form a corresponding message data in storage. The message data is transmitted over an interconnecting network to an address of an addressed recipient. After receiving an acknowledgement of receipt of the message data from the addres... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287284 | Information processing method and apparatus, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium Additional information is embedded in document data by inputting document data, inputting additional information, and inputting image data. The additional information is embedded in the input image data using a first digital watermark method, and the additional info... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286254 | Communication control apparatus and method of converting between facsimile and e-mail transmissions A network communication control apparatus that converts data from a facsimile apparatus into e-mail to transmit to another communication apparatus, and converts e-mail from another communication apparatus into facsimile data to transmit to the facsimile apparatus, t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283259 | Image data recording device, method for controlling image data recording device, and a program for controlling an image data recording system, each using a common key A computer generates a print ID based on input image data on which a forgery preventing process is performed, and transfers the print ID to a printer. The printer generates a common key corresponding to the print ID, and transfers it to the computer. The computer en... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283631 | Encryption processing apparatus and encryption processing system In the system which stores data sent out from an external equipment temporarily in a storage apparatus to output, to ensure the security of data during the storage period, there has been a conventional technique for the encryption of all received data. However, the ... | 10/16/2007 |
