| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7455802 |
Stress release method and apparatus |
November 25, 2008 |
| A stress/strain relief process for a flexible, multilayered web stock includes providing a multilayered web stock including at least one layer to be treated, the at least one layer to be treated having a coefficient of thermal expansion significantly differing from a coefficient of t |
| 7455291 |
Media alignment systems and methods |
November 25, 2008 |
| Embodiment herein being by placing a media sheet into a chamber. The chamber has a bottom, sidewalls, and a movable projection within a lower portion of the chamber. The movable projection has an upper surface and the media sheet can initially rest on the upper surface of the movable |
| 7454880 |
Personalized medication packaging |
November 25, 2008 |
| A system for personalized packaging of prescription medication includes a processing device having a CPU and a user interface. The user interface is configured to receive input data related to at least one type of medication to be packaged, wherein the user interface communicates the |
| 7454466 |
Method and system for flexible workflow management |
November 18, 2008 |
| A method for providing emergent and flexible workflow management to a user. The user communicates with other users, using a message-based system having embedded information management resources. The message-based system has a viewer. A message is generated at the message-based system |
| 7454400 |
System for negotiation with mirroring |
November 18, 2008 |
| A plurality of components are specified to perform a negotiation, where each component is a participant, a coordinator, or both. Each component is provided with a conversion table that maps a set of parameters between invocation patterns instantiated by the participants. Each coordinator |
| 7454397 |
Method and system for classifying print product descriptions |
November 18, 2008 |
| A system and method for classifying a print product description in a print shop vocabulary. Initially, a system of classification having a set of classifications, such as product classes, in a print shop vocabulary is provided in an automated system with classification rules for classify |
| 7454159 |
Jam clearance release mechanism for printer guides |
November 18, 2008 |
| A magnetic latch for removably latching a first member to a second member includes a magnet emitting a magnetic field carried by the first member and a magnetically attractive catch plate carried by the second member. A release mechanism is provided for moving the magnet relative to the |
| 7453604 |
Systems and methods for estimating an image marking process using scanned image attributes |
November 18, 2008 |
| Methods and systems used to automatically identify the marking process used for an image on a substrate based on spatial characteristics and/or color of the image. Image types which are classified and identified include continuous tone images and halftone images. Among halftone images |
| 7453591 |
Color saturation adjustment |
November 18, 2008 |
| A method of gray balance adjustment and color saturation adjustment including generating respective gray balancing components for initial primary color data values, generating respective color saturation adjustment components for the initial primary color data values, and adding resp |
| 7453468 |
Intelligent color to texture converter |
November 18, 2008 |
| A method for preserving color information in a black and white version of a color image includes the analysis of the color image. The analysis comprises a search for conflicting colors. Conflicting colors are colors that are normally transformed to the same gray level in a black and whit |
| 7452650 |
Coated carriers and processes thereof |
November 18, 2008 |
| A carrier comprised of a core and a polymer generated from a mixture of two latexes, and wherein the first latex enables a polymer with a high molecular weight, and the second latex enables a polymer with a low molecular weight, and wherein high represents a weight average molecular |
| 7452646 |
External surface additive compositions |
November 18, 2008 |
| A toner having at least one binder, at least one colorant and external additives. The external additives include at least one fluoropolymer. An electrophotographic image forming machine and method includes the toner with at least one fluoropolymer. |
| 7452643 |
Polyphenyl ether and thiophosphate containing photoconductors |
November 18, 2008 |
| An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer of at least one charge transport component, at least one polyphenyl ether of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are ind |
| 7452642 |
Hole transportation polymers for photoreceptor devices |
November 18, 2008 |
| Hole transport polymers are disclosed. The polymers include modified triarylamine groups attached to a polymeric material such as, for example, poly(vinyl butyral). The polymers are particularly suited for use in multilayered photoreceptors. The polymers can be readily synthesized. A |
| 7451697 |
Printing system |
November 18, 2008 |
| A printing system is provided that includes one or more printing modules, the one or more printing modules including a media web transport input; a media web image transfer point; a media web transport output; a primary image transfer system; a secondary image transfer system; and an |
| 7451242 |
Systems and methods for providing network access |
November 11, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for providing network access using network controllers and network interfaces. A network controller has one or more subsystems including a monitoring system that monitors a plurality of communication paths to detect a presence of link pulses in one of the communicatio |
| 7451140 |
System and method for proofing individual documents of variable information document runs using |
November 11, 2008 |
| Text, images, and/or graphics of variable content documents should be organized and laid out by a template to provide effective and quality documents. The best such template depends upon the variable content interaction with the template for each individual document. To analyze the q |
| 7451124 |
Method of analyzing documents |
November 11, 2008 |
| A method for analyzing documents is disclosed. The method compares concepts consisting of groups of terms for similarity within a corpus of document, clusters documents that contain certain concept term sets together. It may also rank the documents within each cluster according to th |
| 7450873 |
Marking system involving non-business usage |
November 11, 2008 |
| This is a method for permitting an employee (user) authority to use his employer's marking apparatus for personal reasons. The supplier (provider) of the marking apparatus for example, Xerox Corporation, makes arrangements with the employee (with employer's approval) to use the marki |
| 7450797 |
Beam switch structures and methods |
November 11, 2008 |
| A substantially straight beam in an unbuckled state is compressed to cause the beam to buckle using an adjustable compressor. The adjustable compressor applies force to one or both ends of the beam and limits compression on the beam to allow the beam to move between a first buckled s |
| 7450277 |
Single pass duplex document path for a digital scanner |
November 11, 2008 |
| A document handling system includes an imaging area; a light source located in proximity to the imaging area; a raster imaging scanning system located in proximity to the imaging area; and a looped document path, located in proximity to the imaging area, having an entrance and an exi |
| 7450226 |
Gray balance calibration of an imaging system |
November 11, 2008 |
| A calibration system includes a printer capable of being calibrated and a printable calibration sheet. The printable calibration sheet includes at least one calibration reference segment printed on the sheet and one or more defined printing spaces on the sheet. The at least one calibrati |
| 7449715 |
Poly[bis(ethynyl)heteroacene]s and electronic devices generated therefrom |
November 11, 2008 |
| An electronic device comprising a polymer of Formula or structure (I) ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, or a heteroatom containing group; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; R.sub.3 and R. |
| 7449542 |
Polymers |
November 11, 2008 |
| A thienylene-arylene polymer comprised of a repeating segment containing at least one 2,5-thienylene unit selected from (I) and (II), and from about one to about three arylene units selected from (IIIa), (IIIb), and/or (IIIc) ##STR00001## wherein R is an alkyl or an alkoxy; R' is ha |
| 7449515 |
Phase change inks containing compounds derived from isocyanate, unsaturated alcohol, and polyol |
November 11, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising a colorant, an initiator, and a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (A) a first isocyanate-derived compound which is the reaction product of a mixture comprising (1) an isocyanate; and (2) a component comprising (a) an alcohol |
| 7449505 |
Method of making porous microspheres with geometric standard deviation of 1.25 or less |
November 11, 2008 |
| Porous polymer microspheres having a size of from about 3 to about 50 microns and a geometric standard deviation of about 1.25 or less are disclosed. The porous polymer microspheres are made by a method including the steps of preparing an emulsion comprised of polymer particles having |
| 7449268 |
Polymers of napthalene tetracarboxylic diimide dimers |
November 11, 2008 |
| Polymers of naphthalene tetracarboxylic diimide dimmers are provided. The polymers are of the Formula I ##STR00001## wherein the A units are selected from ##STR00002## and Formula IX ##STR00003## The polymers are suitable for use in the active layer of an imaging member and exhibit |
| 7448719 |
Ink jet printhead having a movable redundant array of nozzles |
November 11, 2008 |
| There is provided a printhead for an ink jet printer, including a primary and a secondary array of nozzles in the printhead, the nozzles in the primary array of nozzles being in alignment with the nozzles in the secondary array of nozzles in a printing process direction; detection sy |
| 7447461 |
Method for charging a photoreceptor to extend the life of a charge receptor in a xerographic pri |
November 4, 2008 |
| A method of operating an electrostatographic printing apparatus, the apparatus including a charge-retentive member defining an imaging surface and a charging device for placing a charge on the imaging surface, including the steps of: providing a power supply to apply a bias to the bi |
| 7447452 |
Method and system for improving electrophotographic run cost through cyclic efficiency of the ch |
November 4, 2008 |
| The life of the photoconductor in an image forming apparatus is typically limited by the eventual occurrence of some form of print quality defect related to the photoconductor. One of the typical failure mechanisms is the slow wearing away of the surface layer of the photoconductor. |
| 7447449 |
Cleaner subsystem fault detection |
November 4, 2008 |
| A method for detecting a stress condition in a cleaning system of an imaging device is provided. The method comprises receiving a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal. The PWM signal has a duty cycle for driving a PWM servo motor of a cleaning system. A determination is then made whether |
| 7446907 |
Photosensor architecture for a color raster input scanner |
November 4, 2008 |
| In an image sensor array, as would be used in an input scanner such as in a digital copier, an original image is moved relative to a linear array of photosites. Each photosite includes at least two wide photosensors, each of which extends substantially across the photosite along the arra |
| 7445876 |
Ether and thiophosphate containing photoconductors |
November 4, 2008 |
| An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer and at least one charge transport layer of at least one charge transport component, at least one C-ether of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently |
| 7445205 |
Automatically variably heated airflow for separation of humid coated paper print media |
November 4, 2008 |
| Sheet separation, feeding and printing with reduced image deletions of various types of print media sheets from a stack thereof, especially coated print media sheets with high humidity adhesion difficulties, is assisted by a sheet air puffer for a sheet separator/feeder having an aut |
| 7444108 |
Parallel printing architecture with parallel horizontal printing modules |
October 28, 2008 |
| An intergrated printing system is provided that includes at least two substantially horizontially aligned printing modules including an entrance media path and an exit media path; and at least one interface media transport including at least two substantially horizontal media transpo |
| 7444104 |
Variable energy development station using a magnet to restrict developer material flow in the de |
October 28, 2008 |
| An improved development station extends the useful life of toner in the housing and increases the number of images developed by the developer supply. The improved development station includes a development station housing having a developer sump, a toner supply for providing toner ma |
| 7444101 |
Systems and methods for improving belt motion and color registration in an image forming device |
October 28, 2008 |
| A method and system of correcting a medium velocity error in a photoreceptor belt of an image forming device with a controller, including measuring a velocity error of the photoreceptor belt when the medium is used in the image forming device, the velocity error comprising a velocity |
| 7444088 |
Printing system with balanced consumable usage |
October 28, 2008 |
| A printing system includes a plurality of marking engines. The marking engines selectively receive at least one replacement module, such as a toner or ink cartridge. The replacement module includes a consumable such as toner or ink, which is consumed during rendering of images by the |
| 7443570 |
Electrophoretic display medium and device |
October 28, 2008 |
| An electrophoretic display includes one or more set of colored particles in a dielectric fluid, wherein at least one of the one or more set of particles comprise particles having a cationic coating thereon imparting a substantially uniform positive charge to the particles. The display |
| 7443548 |
Systems and methods for creating a single electronic scanned job from multiple scanned documents |
October 28, 2008 |
| This invention provides systems and methods that use a meta job description that combines a number of scan jobs into a single combined job and use a meta job description that incorporates the scan parameters for a plurality of scan. Scanning documents with a meta job description prov |
| 7443523 |
Printing to a client site from an application running on a remote server |
October 28, 2008 |
| A method for printing at a local printer using the resources of a networked remote application server in which the networked remote application server responds to a print executable request from a local client by downloading a print proxy executable that obtains printing parameters. |
| 7443027 |
Electronic device having coalesced metal nanoparticles |
October 28, 2008 |
| An apparatus composed of: (a) a substrate; and (b) a deposited composition comprising a liquid and a plurality of metal nanoparticles with a covalently bonded stabilizer. |
| 7442740 |
Hybrid toner processes |
October 28, 2008 |
| A toner process that includes a first heating of a colorant dispersion, a first polyester resin free latex emulsion, a second polyester latex emulsion, and a wax dispersion in the presence of a coagulant containing a metal ion; adding a third polyester free latex; adding an organic s |
| 7442242 |
Phase change inks containing specific colorants |
October 28, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising (a) a phase change ink carrier comprising (1) an amide; and (2) a polyethylene wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 350 to about 730 and a polydispersity of from about 1.0001 to about 1.5; and (b) a colorant |
| 7440974 |
Method for automatic wrapper repair |
October 21, 2008 |
| A method of information extraction from a Web page using an initial wrapper which has become partially inoperative, wherein the initial wrapper comprises an initial set of rules for extracting information and for assigning labels from a wrapper set of labels to the extracted informat |
| 7440967 |
System and method for transforming legacy documents into XML documents |
October 21, 2008 |
| A method for converting a legacy document into an XML document, includes decomposing the conversion process into a plurality of individual conversion tasks. A legacy document is decomposed into a plurality of document portions. A target XML schema including a plurality of schema comp |
| 7440951 |
Method for automatic wrapper repair |
October 21, 2008 |
| A method of information extraction from a Web page using a broken wrapper, includes using the wrapper to extract strings from the Web page parsed in forward direction; analyzing the extracted strings according to a set of rules for assigning labels associated with the wrapper; assigning |
| 7440943 |
Recommender system and method |
October 21, 2008 |
| A system for providing item recommendations includes a memory, a device, responsive to a user request, for recording an item on a hardcopy medium, and a processor, for storing ratings of items and for generating recommendations for new items based on recommendation criteria. In respo |
| 7440890 |
Systems and methods for normalization of linguisitic structures |
October 21, 2008 |
| A text passage is analyzed to determine whether it contains a "be" verb or a "have" verb. If so, syntactic dependencies are obtained from the text passage, a direct object relation involving the "be" verb or "have" verb is obtained, and a verbal form of a noun appearing in the first dire |
| 7440159 |
Electrophoretic display and method of displaying images |
October 21, 2008 |
| An electrophoretic display medium includes one or more set of colored particles in a dielectric fluid, and wherein at least one of the one or more set of particles are particles having thereon at least one polyelectrolyte coating. The display medium is included in an electrophoretic |
