G06F 3/1277
Using filter pipeline
Official title: {using filter pipeline, e.g. outside the driver, adding traps}
G06F3/1277 (Using filter pipeline) appears on 70 US grants and 82 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 121
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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Recent patents
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium10 Feb 2026US 12,547,357 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium for using print driver extensions to convert a format of print data8 Oct 2024US 12,112,084 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, information processing apparatus and printing method21 Mar 2023US 11,609,727 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, method and storage medium for using extension modules to generate print commands compliant with a plurality of different printing protocols20 Dec 2022US 11,531,507 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Countermeasure implementation for processing stage devices25 Jan 2022US 11,232,014 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium21 May 2026US 2026/0140680 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Throttling notifications to cloud printing service31 Jul 2025US 2025/0244922 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium9 Jan 2025US 2025/0013409 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium23 Mar 2023US 2023/0086590 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, information processing apparatus and printing method15 Jul 2021US 2021/0216258 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Filter based data imaging method for an image forming device78US 6,683,696 B1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2004
- Printer driver filter and method of printing with the same29US 6,707,568 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2004
- Filter interface for managing printer system information18US 6,175,839 B1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Method and system for pre-print processing of web-based documents to reduce printing costs10US 7,617,446 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2009
- Graphical user interface9US 7,423,769 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2008