G06F 3/127
By using hot folders
Official title: {by using hot folders, e.g. folder for which print settings or print data management rules are set in advance}
G06F3/127 (By using hot folders) appears on 103 US grants and 121 published applications in this corpus.
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- Image formation apparatus and method for controlling image formation apparatus27 Nov 2025US 2025/0362856 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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By later US patents
- Print workflow automation20US 7,855,799 B22010
- Document processing apparatus and a method for controlling a document processing apparatus16US 7,916,332 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2011
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