G06F 3/1203
Improving or facilitating administration
Official title: {Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management}
G06F3/1203 (Improving or facilitating administration) appears on 11,256 US grants and 14,336 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 11,256
- Published applications
- 14,336
- Assignees
- 921
- Inventors
- 12,858
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 10 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 9 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 13 | 0 |
| 1996 | 29 | 0 |
| 1997 | 27 | 0 |
| 1998 | 40 | 0 |
| 1999 | 44 | 0 |
| 2000 | 39 | 0 |
| 2001 | 64 | 64 |
| 2002 | 85 | 284 |
| 2003 | 122 | 369 |
| 2004 | 150 | 388 |
| 2005 | 159 | 416 |
| 2006 | 260 | 469 |
| 2007 | 238 | 481 |
| 2008 | 233 | 547 |
| 2009 | 224 | 549 |
| 2010 | 286 | 615 |
| 2011 | 349 | 563 |
| 2012 | 508 | 645 |
| 2013 | 630 | 557 |
| 2014 | 731 | 667 |
| 2015 | 742 | 662 |
| 2016 | 589 | 615 |
| 2017 | 571 | 587 |
| 2018 | 552 | 689 |
| 2019 | 697 | 820 |
| 2020 | 707 | 809 |
| 2021 | 676 | 690 |
| 2022 | 660 | 657 |
| 2023 | 752 | 675 |
| 2024 | 599 | 593 |
| 2025 | 292 | 531 |
| 2026 | 135 | 394 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 3/1204Resulting in reduced user or operator actions5,180
- G06F 3/1205Resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration2,606
- G06F 3/1208Resulting in improved quality of the output result2,345
- G06F 3/1206Resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or1,163
- G06F 3/1207Resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job1,102
- G06F 3/1209Resulting in adapted or bridged legacy communication protocols300
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By later US patents
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- Local area print server for requesting and storing required resource data and forwarding printer status message to selected destination431US 5,220,674 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1993
- Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information collection based on various communication modes for sending messages to users376US 6,581,092 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2003
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product355US 7,986,431 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2011