G06F 3/1231
Device related settings
Official title: {Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification}
G06F3/1231 (Device related settings) appears on 687 US grants and 827 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 687
- Published applications
- 827
- Assignees
- 96
- Inventors
- 982
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 7 |
| 2003 | 3 | 13 |
| 2004 | 2 | 9 |
| 2005 | 2 | 8 |
| 2006 | 6 | 5 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12 |
| 2008 | 8 | 11 |
| 2009 | 3 | 7 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17 |
| 2012 | 12 | 30 |
| 2013 | 13 | 31 |
| 2014 | 27 | 38 |
| 2015 | 47 | 51 |
| 2016 | 34 | 32 |
| 2017 | 34 | 33 |
| 2018 | 40 | 75 |
| 2019 | 65 | 85 |
| 2020 | 74 | 111 |
| 2021 | 85 | 70 |
| 2022 | 75 | 53 |
| 2023 | 69 | 46 |
| 2024 | 38 | 31 |
| 2025 | 18 | 18 |
| 2026 | 9 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Printing apparatus having contractual information control, method for controlling thereof, and storage medium1 Sep 2026US 12,724,575 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method that reduce information leakage7 Jul 2026US 12,675,245 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Methods and printing system for peer-to-peer output management16 Jun 2026US 12,656,984 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- 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
- Printing system, printing device, restoration method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267577 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Electronic device preparing setting datasets by inputting specific data to trained machine learning model20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244377 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Systems and methods for operating multiple client printing systems6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227935 A1Vasion, Inc.
- Print system with simplified user operation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227938 A1Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- System, image forming apparatus, user terminal, methods of controlling them, and storage medium30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219811 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer network64US 6,327,045 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2001
- Method and apparatus for automatic installation of shared printers over a network43US 6,424,424 B1Hewlett-Packard Company · 2002
- Network printer auto-detection method and system41US 5,898,823 ADataproducts Corporation · 1999
- Method and apparatus for establishing two-way communication with a remote printer40US 6,559,965 B1Hewlett-Packard Company · 2003
- Method for communication from a host computer to a peripheral device40US 6,804,727 B1Lexmark International, Inc. · 2004