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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7382486 | Printing system Provided is a printing system capable of printing, when one or more pages are replaced after raster image processing (RIP), by performing RIP of only the page(s) to be replaced. A job ticket is issued from a printing apparatus. In a printing data creating apparatus,... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7365872 | Client computer system, method and computer readable medium comprising executable instructions for rendering printable documents in a native printer language on the network In a network facilitating print functions, a means for rendering a print job intended for a remote printer on a client computer using stored administrative settings is provided. Transparently to the client's applications, the client computer keeps the stored remote ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353275 | Printing sub-system for java and internet applications A series of approved printers is associated with each of multiples utilities. A client user having a local printer must first identify the local printer as one of the approved printers. The client user may then gain access to the utilities having an association with... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350145 | Methods and systems for providing technology-assisted content development A computerized system and method for personalizing a document. In one embodiment, a user at a computer retrieves a first message comprising at least one change point from memory. A change point is a word or phrase which may be substituted for other words/phrases by ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7318679 | Data process apparatus for controlling communication by communication unit in accordance with generated error type, and method of controlling the same To flexibly control a communication status between devices, in accordance with an error type generated in a data process device such as a printing device. Also, to improve a communication efficiency or attain a low power consumption. A type of an error generated in ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318681 | Label making apparatus A label making apparatus displays a copy print setting screen to make a user input a number of sets or labels to be copied, and determines whether or not a value stored in a total number of sets in a RAM is 1. After the determination, if the total number of sets is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7314321 | Tape printing apparatus, label producing method, data processing method for tape printing apparatus, printing system, label producing method for printing system, program, and storage medium In case where any one of longitudinal direction printing in which an arranging direction of character strings coincides with a longitudinal direction of a tape, and width direction printing in which the arranging direction coincides with a width direction, is select... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305456 | Device information acquiring method, server apparatus and computer-readable storage medium A device information acquiring method acquires device information related to devices from a Web site provided by a server apparatus via one or a plurality of networks. The method checks an environment of a client terminal from which the Web site is accessed, includi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7280238 | Image forming apparatus, user restriction method and use history generation method An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a user database in which user identification information for identifying an user of the image forming apparatus is registered; an operation panel for receiving a key operation inp... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278099 | Visual graphical indication of the number of remaining characters in an edit field of an electronic device The invention relates to the indication of the amount of characters, which can be still entered into an edit field of an electronic device. A main object of the invention is to provide a new and improved indication of the amount of remaining capacity for entering da... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262877 | Image input-output apparatus and method therefor An image input-output apparatus is provided with a printing function for printing an image specified by print data from an external device and a reading function for reading an original image. The apparatus includes a printing function realizing unit, a discriminati... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7239410 | Printing system, data processing system and method for confirming job process result Disclosed is a system that can precisely obtain process results, such as a paper ejection end, from a printer that receives and processes a print job, while reducing the load imposed on a network and the process loads imposed on the printer and a data processing app... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236262 | Recording medium, printer control method, and printer control system A printer driver recognizes, of a plurality of printers on a network, a printer included in a common category. Only basic settings for printing (the paper size, the print direction, etc.) are made on the printers included in the same category by the printer driver. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227667 | Printer controller responsive to skew and magnification error A printer controller comprising a rasterizing part for producing raster data as printing data, a skew correcting part for correcting the raster data for a skew error in accordance with a correction coefficient delivered form the color image forming device and indica... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221885 | Image forming device, system, control method, program and memory medium utilizing operation history Drawbacks in the prior technology, such as operation histories of other persons having a low possibility of re-use are also displayed and the operation history of the operator himself becomes difficult to find and an older operation history is deleted by an operatio... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207734 | Printing system providing print controller capability to retrieve amend and update data stored in local memory of a printer A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202972 | Method, computer program product and system for the transmission of computer data to an output device A method and system for outputting data from a computer to an output device, such as a computer, defines a master document in which variable and static data areas are defined. A variable data area is marked and variable data is inserted thereinto to provide a data s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7146413 | Remote updating of printer settings on a client device in a networked environment Exemplar embodiments for facilitating remote updating of a client device's printer settings in a networked environment are disclosed. An illustrative method includes the steps of receiving information from a network in a client device, the information comprising a p... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142122 | Device initialization in response to a remote event Detection of a potential user of an imaging device is utilized to begin the initialization of the imaging device prior to when the user is expected to access the imaging device. By beginning the initialization process prior to the user's expected access of the devic... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120084 | Integrated memory controller A system and circuit for reading and writing data to a buffer memory, which is Synchronous Dynamic Random access Memory (“SDRAM”), or Double Data Rate-Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (“DDR”) is provided. The circuit includes logic for managing progr... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7068165 | Environment setup system, electronic apparatus, radio communication terminal, program An MPF (Multi Function Peripheral) obtains a BD address and a device name from a communication partner search response when it receives the communication partner search response from a cellular phone. When the MFP successfully obtains the BD address and the BD addre... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7052196 | Width and lengthwise direction tape printing control device and program A print image of a character string to be printed on a print tape, rotated counterclockwise from the lengthwise direction of the print tape by 90 degrees to be arranged in the width direction of the print tape, is generated (S450). The print image is repetiti... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042587 | Image data caching Methods for caching rasterized image data are provided. A representative method includes: receiving image data; searching for rasterized image data that corresponds to the image data; if the rasterized image data corresponding to the image data is not found during s... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039579 | Monte Carlo method for natural language understanding and speech recognition language models A Monte Carlo method for use with natural language understanding and speech recognition language models can include a series of steps. The steps can include identifying at least one phrase embedded in a body of text wherein the phrase can belong to a phrase class. A... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6979139 | Printing apparatus, printing method, and program therefor A printing apparatus which enables a user to verify a tape information at any selected time, including immediately before printing, thereby optimizing printing processes, and also prevents performing printing contrary to the intentions of the user, caused by, for ex... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6976214 | Method, system, and program for enhancing text composition in a text editor program Disclosed is a system, method, and program for editing text in a computer text editor program. A determination is made of terms repeated in a section of text. A determination is then made of terms associated with the repeated terms that may be used as substitute ter... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6948866 | Printing device The present invention provides a printing device, which notifies an administrator of access to its setting information. A control circuit in the printing device determines whether notification of changes made to the settings should be sent to the administrator based... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947166 | Image input-output apparatus and method therefor An image input-output apparatus is provided with a printing function for printing an image specified by print data from an external device and a reading function for reading an original image. The apparatus includes a printing function realizing unit, a discriminati... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6921218 | Printing apparatus There is provided a printing apparatus capable of printing input data in proper adaptation to plural types of printing data input units and environments of use. For this purpose, the type of an input unit is first recognized. For example, when it is recognized that ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920452 | Sound pattern feedback for informational events during typing A word processing program uses a number of low-key alarm signals or sound patterns to communicate a variety of situations that arise during data input by a user. A personalized program is used to detect incorrectly formatted or improperly inputted data such as e-mai... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6814510 | Method and apparatus for automatic update of a printer driver configuration and status A method and apparatus for updating print drivers is described. The described system includes a port monitor that monitors the configuration and status of a printer. When changes occur to the configuration of a printer, the port monitor updates a print driver regist... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6779934 | Printer having a spell checking feature A print apparatus having a spell checking feature has a processor and a memory for storing a spell checking program. A computer coupled to the print apparatus may be used to instruct the print apparatus to spell check a document file before printing the document fil... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6698950 | Image forming apparatus capable of controlling printing data from an external terminal onto a recording medium and printing data from a copier functional device onto a recording medium A printer implements printing(printer jobs) of the data received from personal computers and printing(copier jobs) of the data scanned through a copier functional device. When a user approaches the printer, a user identifying portion identifies the ID num... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6503004 | Apparatus and method for processing image data by applying edge emphasis while minimizing dropout An image data processing apparatus separately applies prescribed gradation treatment to character and picture pattern areas of an input image signal in accordance with an image separation signal using a dither pattern and outputs a prescribed image signal... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6496275 | Character printing method and device There are provided a character printing method and device. There are defined print size alternatives to be selectively set to a print size of a printing area of a printing object on which is to be printed part or all of a character group including at leas... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6371669 | Printer controller A printer controller provides print data to a tandem color image generator containing a plurality of electro-photographic image forming devices. The printer controller includes a receiving buffer region for receiving print data from a data input unit; an ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6338583 | Printing apparatus The printing apparatus comprises: an image display part for displaying an image to be printed on a display screen; a screen switching part being capable of switching the display screen of the image display part to any one of a plurality of editing screens... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6168323 | Tape printing apparatus There is provided a tape printing apparatus for printing desired character string data on a tapelike printing object, in which a plurality of functions can be set with a single physical operator. When a character size setting function key is operated (S14... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6079885 | Printer with variable image processing corresponding to image size A printer allows changing the number of images printed on a single sheet of said recording medium, changing the layout of the print images, and changing the size of the print images. Said printer is provided with a means for determining whether or not eac... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5993088 | Method for improving print performance and quality by accumulating, storing and using resource accounting information with a print job The invention provide a method for optimal use of print resource during the preparation a print job for printing. During the creation of a spool file, or similar intermediate file, the invention logs data on print resource usage in a print job in an accou... | 11/30/1999 |
