Eastman-kodak Company

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James F Herrmann

Angelo Caruso

Joseph Anthony Manico

Steven D Bromley

Mark V Emery

An apparatus and method for loading and configuring an imaging device driver to facilitate turnkey remote access via the interne to the complete and explicit feature set and capabilities provided by a specific, user selected, retail imaging kiosk or digital photofinishing system.

Simplified walk-up enablement of inter-based, personalized access to retail imaging devices and services

An apparatus and method for loading and configuring a print driver onto a PC/workstation such that upon completion the PC/workstation is fully enabled to send print jobs to a printer connected on a network includes a unique methodology which eliminates virtually all of the steps, data entry, and decision points that a user would typically encounter. This printer-resident system includes the ability to have the target printer, upon a simple printer front panel pushbutton request, synthesize a complete installer program that is then written to a removable storage device, e.g., USB flash drive. Once written, the storage device is removed from the printer and installed on the user's PC/workstation. The user then accesses the flash drive contents and runs the installer program executable. The installer program, owing to the fact that it was created on the target printer, has all the information needed for a one-click, fully automated installation process.

Simplified walk-up print driver installation

A system and method for an adaptable print driver that adapts its behavior to make use of multiple processors when they are available on the host computer. In particular, during installation or initialization of the print driver, the driver will query the operating system for the number and type of processors present. If the print driver detects that multiple processors are present, it will operate in a way that makes explicit use of the multiple processors.

Multiple processor print driver

An apparatus and method for loading and configuring an imaging device driver to facilitate turnkey remote access via the internet to the complete and explicit feature set and capabilities provided by a specific, user selected, retail imaging kiosk or digital photofinishing system.

Simplified walk-up enablement of internet-based, personalized access to retail imaging devices and services

A backup battery management method (200), and corresponding apparatus (101 ) monitors a system voltage (111 ) and charges a backup battery (109) while a short-term average (405) of the system voltage exceeds a long-term average (407) of the system voltage.

Adaptive backup battery management for vehicular based electronic modules

A memory controller (18) for controlling a multiplexed-address memory (14) includes a programmable timer (22) whose time-out period can be controlled by the memory-access device (12) to which the memory controller (18) provides memory access. During an idle period after a memory access, the controller's memory operator (20) keeps the row-address-strobe signal asserted, and thereby permits page-mode addressing on the next cycle, until the counter (22) times out, at which point the memory operator (20) releases the row- address-strobe line and thereby initiates the pre-charge operation that is required before a row-address change. The memory access device (12) can thus change the time for which the row-address-strobe signal is kept asserted after a cycle to different values for different applications that it is running. The memory-access device (12) can thus optimize, on an application-specific basis, the compromise between the pre-charge penalties of page misses and the column-address-only benefits of page hits.

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Fairport, NY, United States of America

James F Herrmann