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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:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2005
Applicant:
Junichi Nishiyama, Atsugi, JP;
Inventor:
Junichi Nishiyama, Atsugi, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A printer as an image forming device establishes the same password for multiple confidential printing jobs received within a specified time period from the same user and sends them back to the source of the transmission. The printer approves the execution of the particular confidential printing job when the entered password matches with the password established for the confidential printing job.