Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Information Systems, Inc.

George A Sanchez

Rakesh Mahajan

Loren A Wood

Chiu Ming Man

Mark S Hildreth

A printer/facsimile system includes a printer/facsimile driver to automatically insert a facsimile cover sheet at the beginning of a facsimile document. The system includes the process steps of preparing a document to be faxed, invoking a facsimile dynamic link library which operates to create, by using facsimile dynamic link libraries, facsimile cover sheet data, and to call a printer driver to render a body of the facsimile document, rendering the facsimile document, spooling the rendered facsimile document from the printer driver to a memory and returning the number of rendered document pages to the facsimile application, recalling the printer driver to render the facsimile cover sheet and transmitting the created cover sheet data including the number of rendered document pages together with a fax flag indicator to the printer driver, rendering the facsimile cover sheet in accordance with transmitted cover sheet data, spooling the rendered facsimile cover sheet to the memory in accordance with the fax flag indicator, and retrieving the facsimile cover sheet and facsimile document from the memory and outputting both the facsimile cover sheet and facsimile document in proper order, respectively.

Printer/facsimile driver with page count generation

The method generates and displays an adaptive graphical user interface of a current configuration and current capabilities of a networked peripheral device connected to a local area network. The method includes the steps of requesting from a user's work station a current configuration and current capabilities of a networked peripheral device, transmitting, in response to the request, an interrogation command to the networked peripheral device over the local area network, and receiving, from the networked peripheral device, information corresponding to a current configuration and capabilities of the networked peripheral device. The method further includes retrieving peripheral device configuration and capabilities from libraries based on the received information and generating a graphical user interface using data within the retrieved libraries, and displaying a graphical user interface including a representative graphical image of the networked peripheral device in its current configuration and with its current capabilities.

Adaptive graphical user interface for a network peripheral

Printer/facsimile driver

A memory in a print control arrangement stores one or more application program blocks that control information signal processing, a printer driver block that controls conversion of information signals to print data and a document formatting block. A processor operates on the information signals according to control signals from the memory and operates to convert information signals to be printed according to control signals from the print driver block. Print data sent from the processor to a print spooler is intercepted and reformatted according to user provided formatting parameters in response to control signals of the document formatting block. The reformatted print data is sent to the print spooler.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

George A Sanchez