[May 21, 2013] Canon Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 21 -- Canon, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,443,060) developed by Devon James Kemp, Laguna Hills, Calif., and Christopher John Carcerano, Aliso Viejo, Calif., for "remote creation of printer instances on a workstation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Remotely installing a new printer on a client workstation that communicates via a network with a control point terminal by, in the control point terminal, performing an operation to add the new printer on the client workstation, and in response to the operation being performed, the control point terminal transmitting identification information of the new printer being added to an agent in the client workstation, and in the client workstation, the agent receiving the identification information from the control point terminal, in response to receiving the identification information of the new printer, the agent automatically obtaining printer configuration information and print driver information based at least in part on the received identification information, the agent automatically configuring the printer and installing a print driver based on the obtained printer configuration information and print driver information, and the agent creating a locally managed instance of the printer." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2010 (12/699,724). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,443,060&OS=8,443,060&RS=8,443,060 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0521HP0521-879323 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]