Abstract: The invention concerns a method and device for configuring an electronic document processing peripheral. The invention concerns more particularly a method of determining a configuration profile for an electronic document processing peripheral with the configuration profile representing a set of parameters defining a particular configuration of the peripheral. To do so, the electronic document processing peripheral determines user characteristics as a function of a user identification of a data item and then determines, as a function of the user characteristics, a configuration profile applicable for configuring the peripheral.

Abstract: The device determines conditions for a processing liable to be carried out on data in a file, by at least one input/output device or unit. To this end the semantics of the processing of the data are determined, and a configuration determination is performed, without modifying the data, to take into account the semantics of the processing of the data in order to determine the configuration of the pilot of the input/output device or unit intended to implement this processing.

Abstract: The device (220) of the invention for communicating at a distance has a signal transmission/reception means (223, 224, 102) which has a moving part (102) and a reception device (102, 223, 224), said moving part modifying the electromagnetic environment of said reception device. Preferentially, said moving part is an antenna (102). In particular, said moving part can be fixed to a moving component of an item of office equipment (100) using data received by said communication device.

Abstract: Detecting presence or absence of product in a reservoir by transmitting a signal affected by the product. The signal is detected from among other signals with which it is subsequently received by discrimination and delivery of an output signal whose level is set by the discrimination, and by sampling. Pairs of samples are correlated to obtain a true correlation value SR, where the instantaneous value of correlation between the state value B(i) and the state value B(i+Z) is summed, Z being the number of samples taken during a period T of the signal to be detected. A rate calculation is performed, during which the rate &rgr; of samples representing the presence of the signal is measured, and theoretical correlation mean values are evaluated. A decision is made by comparison of the true correlation value SR with each theoretical correlation mean value.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and device for configuring an electronic document processing peripheral. The invention concerns more particularly a method of determining a configuration profile for an electronic document processing peripheral, the configuration profile representing a set of configuration parameters for the peripheral, a set of fixed values of the parameters defining a particular configuration of the peripheral. This method is characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a step of obtaining (504) a user identification data item; a step of determining (506) user characteristics as a function of the user identification data item; a step of determining (508), as a function of the user characteristics, a configuration profile applicable for configuring the peripheral.

Abstract: A method for the transmission of the pages of an electronic document (100) by a client station to a server station connected by a communication network, with a view to the processing of the document by a processing peripheral, includes the steps of sending (S403) to the server station a document processing request; receiving (S405) a page request from the server station, the page request including information identifying a page of the document; translating (S407) orders corresponding to the page identified in the page request into a computer communication language; sending (S409) to the server station a response containing the translated orders corresponding to the identified page.