Abstract: Methods and systems for making booklets are described. In one embodiment, software enables a user to browse to a network-accessible (e.g. Web-accessible) booklet-making service. The user can specify, to the booklet-making service, imaging data that is to be used to make a booklet and how that imaging data is to be used. The booklet-making service can then construct a booklet incorporating the imaging data that was specified by the user. In further embodiments, the user can print and/or save their booklet.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for facilitating the writing of checks. In some arrangements, the system and methods pertain to receiving data to be included in a check to be printed via a network, configuring the received data for printing on a check, and facilitating printing of the check.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pay-for-printing system and method. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to accessing imaging data from at least one store via a network, receiving print option selections, and determining printing costs.

Abstract: A system for purchasing postage in a distributed processing environment is disclosed. The invention comprises a system for purchasing postage in a distributed processing environment, comprising a client computer coupled to a network and including a browser, a server computer coupled to the network, and information associated with a user of the client computer, where a destination service presented by the server computer to the user obtains portions of text in the information, and where the destination service generates postage using the text information. The destination service may access the text by using a code portion that is sent to the client computer and that is used to identify information relating to the user. Alternatively, the destination service may use a server to directly access the information specific to the user.

Abstract: Pre-defined print option configurations for printing in a distributed environment are established by user selection of one or more print options via a network service. The one or more print options are identified for subsequent resolution, and can be applied to one or more other network services.

Abstract: A user can select one or more print options corresponding to a particular printer and associate the set of selected options with a particular name. The user can then identify the set of selected options, by name, when printing to that particular printer, even though no printer driver for the printer is installed on the user's computing device. Additionally, one or more print options to be used in printing a document identified in a print request can be automatically selected based on one or more characteristics of the print request.

Abstract: An actuating device for automatically controlling the position of a movably mounted vehicle mirror comprises a motor controlled by switches for selectively actuating the motor in response to angular displacement of a trailer with respect to the vehicle. The switches are actuated in response to movement of the trailer and responsively close a circuit connecting a power source to the motor. Preferably, the switching means can include means for disconnecting the power source after a predetermined rotation of the motor in order to avoid excess energy use. Preferably, the disconnecting means comprises a plurality of switches arranged to contact lobes of a rotating cam at predetermined rotational positions of the cam. The cam can be concentrically secured to the rotor shaft or can be connected to the rotor shaft by a lever mechanism in order to form a crank which translates the rotor movement to linear displacement on a mirror positioning member.

Abstract: An assembly for converting mirrors commonly provided on trucks so that the mirror can be adjusted from a position adjacent the seat of the driver to provide maximum visibility from the right hand mirror. A clamp mounts to the mirror and connects to an actuator positioned in the truck adjacent the seat of the driver so that the mirror may be adjusted by the driver while the driver remains in the driving position.

Abstract: A mirror actuator for trucks whereby the mirror may be adjusted from a position adjacent the seat of the driver to provide maximum visibility from the right hand mirror. A lever is positioned in the truck adjacent the seat of the driver so that the lever may be actuated by the driver while the driver remains in the driving position. The lever in turn controls a cable which is secured to the exterior right hand mirror assembly so that actuation of the lever will cause a corresponding pivotal movement of the right hand exterior mirror about its vertical center line.

Abstract: A mirror actuating device for automatically changing the orientation of side-view mirrors which are movably mounted to a vehicle, such as a semi-truck tractor, in response to the relative positions of the tractor and a trailer being towed by the tractor to provide a variable field of view to a driver of the tractor through the mirrors. The actuating device has two actuating plates slidably mounted to the tractor, cables interconnecting the actuating plates to the mirrors, an actuating pin attached to the trailer, and an arm pivotally mounted between its ends to the tractor and having one end connected to the actuating plates and another end connected to the actuating pin. The necessary operating connection between the actuating plates on the tractor and the pin carried by the trailer is automatically made when the tractor and trailer are hooked together in the normal manner.