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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald X. Smith, II, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/938 ; B41J 2/205 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/938 ; B41J 2/205 ;
Abstract
The print content is received and parsed to determine if different priority levels have been assigned to any section of the content. If any section of the content has been assigned a priority level, an ink rationing process is invoked. The manner in which the content is printed depends on the ink supply level and the priority assigned to each section. If the ink supply level is low and a particular section has been assigned a low priority, that section is printed in grayscale or degraded in some other way that uses less ink. Other higher priority sections of the content are printed in normal mode.