Shutterfly, Inc.

Silicon Graphics, Incorporated

Jeannine Marie Smith

Russ Ennio Muzzolini

Xin Wen

Patrick C Teo

Peter Charles Elarde

Daniel R Baum

Desmond W Young

John Voris

Jeff Boone

Daniel Yau

Greg Chesson

Jarrett Redd

Yuh-wen Lin

In-whan Choi

A method for producing a gift card for a gift imaging product, comprises receiving an order of the gift imaging product from a user, producing the gift imaging product, producing the gift card by the user for the gift imaging product; and consolidating the gift card with the gift imaging product into one package.

Personalized gift cards for imaging products and services

A high-speed digital photographic printing system and method includes image-specific backprinting and automatic tracking and sorting of printed jobs. The system includes one or more photographic printers, where each printer can have a different printing rate. A scheduler schedules printing orders to the different printers. The printer-independent image rendering is conducted asynchronous to the printing to maximize the printing throughput. In some embodiments, the rendering image processor does the vast majority of the image processing and outputs a printer-independent data file (generally much larger than the source image data file) that requires little if any further data manipulations or processing in the exposure unit. A photographic printing method and system for producing prints in response to input digital images includes a high-speed exposure unit that exposes a photosensitive material coated on a substrate in response to the input digital image, a chemical processor unit that receives and processes the exposed photosensitive material to form visible dye images on the substrate, a backprinting unit that receives the substrate having the visible dye images and prints information on the opposite surface of the substrate to the dye image, and a cutting unit that produces separate sheets of printed images after the backprinting unit prints information.

Apparatus, architecture and method for high-speed printing

A data stream processing unit comprises a CPU which comprises an ALU, a shift/extract unit, timers, a scheduler, an event system, a plurality of sets of general purpose registers, a plurality of sets of special purpose registers, masquerade registers, pipeline controller, a memory controller and a pair of internal buses. The multiple sets of general and special purpose registers improves the speed of the CPU in switching between environments. The pipeline controller, the scheduler, the events system, and the masquerade registers facilitate the implementation and execution of the methods of the present invention such as efficient thread scheduling, branch delays, elimination of delay slots after stores that provide further increases in the performance and bandwidth.

Central processing unit for processing a plurality of threads using

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Jeannine Marie Smith