Sharp Assigned Patent for Print Data Processing System, Printer, and Data Processing Indicating Apparatus

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- Sharp, Osaka, Japan, has been assigned a patent (8,014,015) developed by Masato Tokishige, Nara, Japan, for a "print data processing system, printer, and data processing indicating apparatus."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "To provide a print data processing system, a printer, and a data processing indicating apparatus, for storing print data and a print history and notifying update of the print data, which is not necessarily registered separately in order to receive a notification of update. The printer stores name data of print data, identification data of a data processing indicating apparatus (or an external apparatus) that has sent storage indicating data of the print data, and identification data of a data processing indicating apparatus (or an external apparatus) that has sent print indicating data of the print data; judges if the print data is updated or not on the basis of the stored data; and notifies each data processing indicating apparatus (or the external apparatus) that has sent print indicating data of the print data of update of the print data."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2007 (11/893,324). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,014,015&OS=8,014,015&RS=8,014,015

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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