G06F 3/1291
Pool of printer devices: self-managing printing devices in a network
Official title: {Pool of printer devices: self-managing printing devices in a network, e.g. without a server}
G06F3/1291 (Pool of printer devices: self-managing printing devices in a network) appears on 343 US grants and 392 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods and printing system for peer-to-peer output management16 Jun 2026US 12,656,984 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and image forming method12 May 2026US 12,625,654 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and information processing method for applying color conversion information associated with output job information28 Apr 2026US 12,615,340 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Methods and printing system for peer-to-peer output management7 Oct 2025US 12,436,720 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Method and system for aggregate asset routing7 Oct 2025US 12,436,721 B2Lob.com, Inc.
- First image forming apparatus, second image forming apparatus, and processing method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252292 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- First image forming apparatus, second image forming apparatus, and processing method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252293 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Service providing device, service providing method, and service providing program6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227941 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method and system for aggregate asset routing4 Dec 2025US 2025/0370683 A1Lob.com, Inc.
- Associating printer data with candidate printers14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258632 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Centralized print server for interfacing one or more network clients with a plurality of printing devices181US 5,974,234 AXerox Corporation · 1999
- Print system, printing method, and printer135US 6,369,909 B1Seiko Epson Corporation · 2002
- System for transferring jobs between processing units based upon content of job and ability of unit to perform job128US 6,157,465 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- Data processing apparatus connected to a network connectable a plurality of devices48US 6,609,162 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Method and apparatus of processing information in an environment with multiple devices and limited resources44US 9,223,529 B1Open Invention Network, LLC · 2015