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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:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2008
Applicant:
Kenneth Ray Niblett, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Ray Niblett, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Shutterfly, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1214 (2013.01); G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1262 (2013.01); G06F 3/1272 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for manufacturing printed page products includes defining a plurality of subbatches each comprising one or more of the pages, creating layouts for the pages in the plurality of subbatches, separating the plurality of subbatches into N groups each comprising a total number of pages equal or less than M, minimizing the difference between the total pages in the N groups and M×N, and printing the layouts of the pages on a stack of sheets each configured to contain layouts for N pages. The layouts of the pages in the stack of sheets are positioned in N columns.