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Online decorating system for edible products

  • US 9,713,342 B2
  • Filed: 11/01/2011
  • Issued: 07/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having a plurality of instructions tangibly stored thereon comprising data representing a software application, which when executed on processing circuitry of a printing system, causes the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:

  • establishing a connection between the printing system and a server;

    limiting licensed images shown to a user according to a geographic location of the user;

    retrieving at least one licensed image, of the licensed images shown to the user, from the server through the connection;

    retrieving an unlicensed image from a source selected from a local storage device, an online account, and an external device;

    determining, after the at least one licensed image has been purchased, whether a license restriction on modifying a first licensed image of the at least one licensed image exists;

    allowing modifying, with the software application, of the unlicensed image and disallowing modifying of the first licensed image, in response to determining that the license restriction does exist;

    generating, with the software application, a data stream for transmission to a printer spooler without using default operating system print drivers, said data stream representing the first licensed image and the modified unlicensed image; and

    causing a printer to render said data stream upon an edible medium using edible inks, wherein, prior to the generating, the server accesses a unique code to determine if the edible medium is an authorized edible media by determining if the user has exceeded an allocated number of prints corresponding to purchased edible media.

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