Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and multifunction printer are disclosed for injecting screens into a third-party workflow on a display panel of a multifunction printer.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for authenticating a user and authorizing the user to access multifunction printer-specific and/or cloud services on a multifunction printer with a user interface.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for improving power savings by accelerating suspend and resume operations. The apparatus having a main integrated circuit, the integrated circuit having a context area, a context snooper, and a context cache, the context area configured to store context change information, the context snooper configured to monitor the context change information, and the context cache configured to store at least a portion of the context change information being monitored by the context snooper; and a memory, the memory configured to receive the at least a portion of the context change information from the context cache upon a suspend process signal to the main integrated circuit, to retain contents during the main integrated circuit suspend, and restore the at least a portion of the context change information to the context cache and/or the context area upon a resume process signal to the main integrated circuit.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a hardware device for protecting sensitive data with controlled external access. The method including: connecting a hardware safe to an external system; transferring a third-party program with an authorization policy to the hardware safe from the external system, the authorization policy configured to provide the third-party program access to one or more files and/or data fields stored on the hardware safe; executing the third-party program on the hardware safe to obtain a result in a predetermined format; and transferring the result in the predetermined format to the external system.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for improving power savings by accelerating suspend and resume operations. The apparatus having a main integrated circuit, the integrated circuit having a context area, a context snooper, and a context cache, the context area configured to store context change information, the context snooper configured to monitor the context change information, and the context cache configured to store at least a portion of the context change information being monitored by the context snooper; and a memory, the memory configured to receive the at least a portion of the context change information from the context cache upon a suspend process signal to the main integrated circuit, to retain contents during the main integrated circuit suspend, and restore the at least a portion of the context change information to the context cache and/or the context area upon a resume process signal to the main integrated circuit.

Abstract: A method, an image forming apparatus, and a computer program product are disclosed for applying policy to one or more page description languages or page description language transfer protocols. The method includes creating a command group which comprises two or more printer language commands and/or another command group of printer language commands, wherein, the two or more printer language commands are selected from one or more page description languages or page description language transfer protocols; storing a printer language policy in an image forming apparatus, the printer language policy configured to control access to the command group for one or more users; applying the printer language policy to the command group; and when a user requests a job comprising printer language commands, executing the job based on the printer language policy assigned to the user.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for generating contact cards, such as printed business cards. Additionally, the present invention relates to systems and management to allow individuals or employees to generate contact cards in a controlled manner, and to provide a mechanism to allow card recipients to obtain selective information access by virtue of information furnished with the card, and access configurations tracked to a unique ID associated with the card. Additionally, information distributed to recipients can be controlled by a pre-stored access level associated with unique recipient IDs. Further embodiments of the present invention provide for electronic generation, distribution, and post-distribution tracking of contact card information.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a physical location of a device, the method comprising: attaching a device to a network switch, the network switch configured to connect the device to a network connection; sending location information from the network switch to the device; sending a discovery request from a client device to the device; obtaining the location information from the device on the client device; sending the location information from the client device to a server to obtain a physical location of the device, wherein the server hosts a location database for a plurality of network switches in the network connection; determining the physical location of the device using the location database hosted on the server; sending the physical location of the device from the server to the client device; and displaying the physical location of the device on the client device.

Abstract: A method implemented in a multi-user data processing system including an image forming apparatus for processing a print job is disclosed, which includes: storing a printer language access policy in the image forming apparatus, wherein the plurality of printer language policy settings determines which printer language commands can be executed by the plurality of users on a user-by-user basis; and when a user requests to execute a printer language command for the image forming apparatus, determining whether the user is authorized to execute the printer language command based on the printer language policy settings for the user, wherein an execution of the printer language command affects at least one of a printer language feature of the image forming apparatus and a printer language setting of a printer language feature of the image forming apparatus to be effective to other users.

Abstract: A method implemented in a data processing system including an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job; (c) determining if the job information includes an instruction to print multiple copies of the document in a collated order; (d) forwarding the data representing the document to be printed in the print job to an external storage unit when multiple copies of the document in collated order have been requested; (e) retrieving the data from the external storage unit; and (f) printing the multiple copies of the document in collated order.

Abstract: A method for securing a computer device against malicious code, the method including the steps of: executing a computer program on the computer device, the computer device having a central processing unit, which carries out instructions of the computer program, and wherein at least a portion of the computer program is executed by one or more tasks, each of the one or more tasks having a task stack associated therewith; and managing the central processing unit such that the central processing unit does not execute machine code from the task stacks associated with each of the one or more task so as to secure the computer device against malicious code from the task stack.

Abstract: A method executed by an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job, the job information including an instruction to print multiple copies of the document; (c) printing the multiple copies of the document; and (d) ejecting one sheet of each of the multiple copies of the document at an ejection speed, that is either greater than or less than an ejection speed of the other sheets of the multiple copies of the document.

Abstract: An image forming method includes marking a cutting pattern over an image to be printed, designating portions of the cutting pattern as a portion to be kept in the image to be printed and a portion to be discarded, creating an image mask using information of the designated portions, applying the image mask to create a modified image in which the portion to be kept is exposed and the portion to be discarded is hidden by the image mask, applying colorant only to the portion to be kept of the modified image, which is exposed by the image mask, to create an outputted image with colorant only on the portion to be kept, and cutting away the portion to be discarded of the modified image, which is hidden by the image mask, so that the portion to be discarded is not included in the outputted image.

Abstract: A method for securing a computer device against malicious code, the method including the steps of: executing a computer program on the computer device, the computer device having a central processing unit, which carries out instructions of the computer program, and wherein at least a portion of the computer program is executed by one or more tasks, each of the one or more tasks having a task stack associated therewith; and managing the central processing unit such that the central processing unit does not execute machine code from the task stacks associated with each of the one or more task so as to secure the computer device against malicious code from the task stack.

Abstract: A method executed by an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job, the job information including an instruction to print multiple copies of the document; (c) printing the requested multiple copies of the document; and (d) printing a mark on an edge of at least one sheet of each of the multiple copies of the document.

Abstract: A method executed by an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job, the job information including an instruction to print multiple copies of the document; (c) printing the multiple copies of the document; and (d) ejecting one sheet of each of the multiple copies of the document at an ejection speed, that is either greater than or less than an ejection speed of the other sheets of the multiple copies of the document.

Abstract: A method implemented in a multi-user data processing system including an image forming apparatus for processing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) storing a printer language access policy in an image forming apparatus, the printer language access policy including a plurality of printer language policy settings for each of the plurality of users having access to the image forming apparatus; (b) when a user requests to execute a printer language command for the image forming apparatus, determining whether the user is authorized to execute such a printer language command based on the printer language policy settings for the user; (c) when it is determined that the user is authorized to execute the printer language command of the image forming apparatus, executing the printer language command of the image forming apparatus; and (d) when it is determined that the user is not authorized to execute the printer language command of the image forming apparatus, denying the request to execute the printer lang

Abstract: A method implemented in a data processing system including an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job; (c) determining if the job information includes an instruction to print multiple copies of the document in a collated order; (d) forwarding the data representing the document to be printed in the print job to an external storage unit when multiple copies of the document in collated order have been requested; (e) retrieving the data from the external storage unit; and (f) printing the multiple copies of the document in collated order.

Abstract: An image forming method includes marking a cutting pattern over an image to be printed, designating portions of the cutting pattern as a portion to be kept in the image to be printed and a portion to be discarded, creating an image mask using information of the designated portions, applying the image mask to create a modified image in which the portion to be kept is exposed and the portion to be discarded is hidden by the image mask, applying colorant only to the portion to be kept of the modified image, which is exposed by the image mask, to create an outputted image with colorant only on the portion to be kept, and cutting away the portion to be discarded of the modified image, which is hidden by the image mask, so that the portion to be discarded is not included in the outputted image.