Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to information temporarily stored in memory, such as a hard disk drive, associated with a digital document processor, such as a digital copier, printer, or facsimile machine. This invention includes storing information to memory, conducting an operation on the information, and automatically overwriting the information one or more times with a bit mask. Bit masks may be non-random or random sequences of binary values.

Abstract: A method for multicasting of documents. The host receives the document data, including a number of documents to be created. The host then divides the number of documents to be created into batches and formats the data into a print job. The information about the batches and assignments to printers in the cluster is embedded into the print job. The host then transmits the print job for production of the documents.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to information temporarily stored in memory, such as a hard disk drive, associated with a digital document processor, such as a digital copier, printer, or facsimile machine. This invention includes storing information to memory, conducting an operation on the information, and automatically overwriting the information one or more times with a bit mask. Bit masks may be non-random or random sequences of binary values.

Abstract: In a computer system having an embedded application, a method of dynamic system relocation, including creating a ROM version of an embedded application which is executable from ROM; creating a RAM version of the embedded application which is executable from RAM; comparing the RAM version of the embedded application to the ROM version of the embedded application to identify differences between the RAM version and the ROM version; storing the differences between the ROM version and the RAM version in a relocation table; storing the ROM version of the embedded application and the relocation table in ROM; on system initialization; conditionally copying the ROM version of the embedded application into RAM; modifying the copied ROM version now in RAM as a function of the differences stored in the relocation table; and executing the embedded application from the RAM version of the embedded application.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to information temporarily stored in memory, such as a hard disk drive, associated with a digital document processor, such as a digital copier, printer, or facsimile machine. This invention includes storing information to memory, conducting an operation on the information, and automatically overwriting the information one or more times with a bit mask. Bit masks may be non-random or random sequences of binary values.

Abstract: A method for improving chromatic text resolution includes transforming a color image signal into chrominance (C1, C2) image signal components and a luminance (L) image signal component. A mask is created for a selected image object from the luminance image signal components. The C1 and C2 image signal components are modified by the mask into new image signal components, C1.sub.NEW, C2.sub.NEW, respectively. The new image signal components are transformed, with L, into a new color image signal that does not have chromatic blur.