G06F 3/1226
Discovery of devices having required properties
Official title: {Discovery of devices having required properties}
G06F3/1226 (Discovery of devices having required properties) appears on 687 US grants and 856 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 687
- Published applications
- 856
- Assignees
- 119
- Inventors
- 1,210
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 3 |
| 2002 | 4 | 27 |
| 2003 | 6 | 26 |
| 2004 | 10 | 24 |
| 2005 | 7 | 16 |
| 2006 | 18 | 15 |
| 2007 | 10 | 53 |
| 2008 | 17 | 31 |
| 2009 | 4 | 37 |
| 2010 | 17 | 37 |
| 2011 | 24 | 25 |
| 2012 | 33 | 45 |
| 2013 | 40 | 32 |
| 2014 | 37 | 49 |
| 2015 | 60 | 39 |
| 2016 | 36 | 37 |
| 2017 | 49 | 47 |
| 2018 | 45 | 45 |
| 2019 | 40 | 60 |
| 2020 | 51 | 47 |
| 2021 | 50 | 33 |
| 2022 | 36 | 27 |
| 2023 | 43 | 40 |
| 2024 | 17 | 19 |
| 2025 | 12 | 28 |
| 2026 | 5 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Searching image forming apparatus for workflow execution15 Sep 2026US 12,737,145 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Systems and methods for operating multiple client printing systems31 Mar 2026US 12,591,399 B2Vasion, Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium therefor to be compliant to a particular program24 Mar 2026US 12,585,412 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Adversarial image generator10 Feb 2026US 12,547,674 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Printer discovery and ranking3 Feb 2026US 12,542,713 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Print management system, image forming apparatus, management server, storage medium, and print management method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310392 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304306 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing system and non-transitory computer readable medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288387 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288390 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Delivery server delivering label data uploaded from source device and print setting to destination device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252291 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image processing system with ease of operation475US 8,471,914 B2Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Networked printer server229US 6,452,692 B1Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2002
- Printing system wherein one of printer drivers through which print data is sent from a data processor to a printer is selected based on interpreters available on the printer191US 5,228,118 ABrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1993
- Remote user interface for prioritizing and selecting from a plurality of document production peripheral devices141US 5,564,109 AEastman Kodak Company · 1996
- Directing print jobs in a network printing system126US 6,552,813 B2Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2003