US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on May 10 for "Network Configuration File for Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Still Camera" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 17 -- United States Patent no. RE42,337, issued on May 10, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.

Y.).

"Network Configuration File for Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Still Camera" was invented by Joseph Ward (Mendham, N.

J.), Kenneth A. Parulski (Rochester, N.

Y.) and James D. Allen (Rochester, N.

Y.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network configuration file is generated at a host computer and downloaded to a digital camera. This file contains instruction information for communicating with a selected destination via a communications interface. The digital camera includes a "send" button or LCD icon which allows the user to easily transmit one or more images via a wired or wireless communications interface to a desired destination, which among other possibilities may be an Internet Service Provider or a digital photofinishing center. When the user selects this option, the communications port settings, user account specifics, and destination connection commands are read from the network configuration file on the removable memory card. Examples of these settings include serial port baud rate, parity, and stop bits, as well as account name and password."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13, 2009, under Application No. 12/540,610.

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