US Patent No: 7,423,769
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Graphical user interface
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Sep 9, 2008
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Feb 20, 2004
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10/781,670
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Abstract
A printer filter including a companion script file and which filters a standard printer data stream to perform a user-specified print job. In particular, the filter is a computer program which may access other programs or data files, and which reads a standard printer data stream, transforms the input in accordance with instructions contained within the computer program, and then outputs the filtered or transformed information to the printer. The present invention also provides a graphical user interface to assist a user in operating the computer program. In particular, the graphical user interface includes a parent window having a display control which list a possible filters to be selected, along with a plurality of other display controls to assist the user in operating the computer program product.
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| 6,661,526 Printer drivers using filters that are operating system-independent and printer-independent | 13 | 1999 | |
| 7,102,768 Printer drivers using filters that are operating system-independent and printer-independent | 5 | 2003 | |
| 2005/0052,700 Printing digital documents | 25 | 2003 | |
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| 5,838,317 Method and apparatus for arranging displayed graphical representations on a computer interface | 183 | 1995 | |
| 2006/0221,382 Supporting a filter pipeline for a spooling module | 5 | 2005 | |
| 2007/0165,260 Print Driver Pipeline Filter Conformance Validation | 3 | 2006 | |
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| 2006/0028,667 Printing system and printing processing method | 9 | 2005 | |
| 2006/0187,479 Printing system and document management system | 7 | 2006 | |
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| 6,341,018 Preprocessing method for a variable data print job system | 4 | 2000 | |
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| 6,433,801 Method and apparatus for using a touch screen display on a portable intelligent communications device | 130 | 1997 | |
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| 2007/0268,527 Image forming device | 2 | 2007 | |
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| 6,614,546 Image processing system and image forming apparatus | 25 | 1998 | |
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| 6,707,568 Printer driver filter and method of printing with the same | 22 | 1999 | |
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| 2005/0225,789 Print subsystem despooling backplane | 13 | 2003 | |
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| 5,754,743 Apparatus and method for printing color screen displays on a monochrome printer | 4 | 1996 | |
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| 5,559,933 Distributed enterprise print controller | 198 | 1994 | |
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| 5,749,024 Printing system for automatically delivering transparencies and regular sheets in proper order with different output modules | 11 | 1997 | |
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