Providing a print-ready document

• US 10,082,992 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Patel, Arjun Angur
• Primary Examiner(s): Worku, Negussie
• Application Number:
  US15/521,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20170315764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115, 358 11, 358 118, 358402, 358403, 358 111, 358 112, 358 114, 358 116, 358 117, 709203, 709217, 709226, 709205, 709206, 709213, 709214, 709225, 709227, 709230, 709246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

Example embodiments relate to providing print ready documents. In some implementations, a computing device: receives, from a client device, a request for a print-ready document, the request specifying an electronic document for which the print-ready document is to be provided; selects a particular extraction module from a plurality of extraction modules for the electronic document, the selection being based on prior user feedback received from a plurality of client devices, the prior user feedback indicating a measure of quality of print-ready documents created for the electronic document using content extracted from the web page by the particular extraction module; and provides data specifying the particular extraction module to a print service that causes presentation of the print-ready document at the client device, the print-ready document including content extracted from the electronic document by the particular extraction module.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device for providing a print-ready document, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:

instructions to receive, from a client device, a request for a print-ready document, the request specifying a web page for which the print-ready document is to be provided;

instructions to select a particular extraction module to extract content from electronic documents from a plurality of extraction modules for the web page based on a feedback score for the particular extraction module meeting a threshold feedback score that is derived from prior user feedback received from a plurality of client devices, the prior user feedback indicating a measure of quality of print-ready documents created for the web page using content extracted from the web page by the particular extraction module; and

instructions to provide data specifying the particular extraction module to a print service that causes presentation of the print-ready document at the client device, the print-ready document including content extracted from the web page by the particular extraction module.

2. The storage medium of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable storage medium further comprises:

instructions for receiving, from the client device, additional user feedback indicating a measure of quality of the print-ready document; and

adjusting the feedback score based on the additional user feedback.

3. The storage medium of claim 1, wherein the prior user feedback comprises implicit positive feedback and implicit negative feedback, each occurrence of implicit positive feedback indicating one of the plurality of client devices executing a print operation in response to being presented with the print-ready document, and each occurrence of implicit negative feedback indicating one of the plurality of client devices cancelling a print operation in response to being presented with the print-ready document.

4. The storage medium of claim 1, wherein selecting the particular extraction module from the plurality of extraction modules for the web page comprises selecting the particular extraction module based on a match between at least a portion of a first universal resource locator for the web page to a second universal resource locator, the second universal resource locator corresponding to a second web page for which print-ready documents were created using the particular extraction module.

5. A computing device for providing a print-ready document, the computing device comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to;

receive a request for a print-ready document, the request specifying a web page for which the print-ready document is to be provided;

select a classification for the web page based a characteristic of the web page;

request extraction of content included in the web page from a plurality of extraction modules to extract content from electronic documents associated with the classification, where extraction is requested from at least one of the plurality of extraction modules based on feedback scores for the plurality of extraction modules meeting threshold feedback scores derived from prior user feedback received from a plurality of client devices;

receive, from each of the plurality of extraction modules, an extraction of content for the web page, each extraction including content obtained from the web page;

select a particular extraction from the extractions received from each of the plurality of extraction modules, the selection being based on the content included in the particular extraction; and

provide data specifying the particular extraction to a print service that causes presentation of a print-ready document.

6. The computing device of claim 5, wherein each extraction has an extraction score that is based on the content included in the extraction, and wherein the selection of the particular extraction is based on the extraction score of the particular extraction being higher than each other extraction score of other extractions provided by the plurality of extraction modules.

7. The computing device of claim 5, wherein the characteristic of the web page is a domain portion of a universal resource locator of the web page.

8. The computing device of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of extraction modules corresponds to a web page category, and wherein each web page category comprises one of:

a news page category;

a blog page category;

a search page category;

an image page category;

or

a shopping page category.

9. The computing device of claim 5, wherein content obtained from the web page includes content from each of a plurality of categories of content, the categories of content comprising:

header text;

title text;

body text;

caption text;

image content; and

advertising content.

10. The computing device of claim 9, wherein each category of content is associated with a category weight, and wherein the extraction score for each extraction is based on category weights of each category of content included in the extraction.

11. A method for providing a print-ready document, the method comprising:

receiving, from a client device, a request for a print-ready document, the request specifying a web page for which the print-ready document is to be provided;

requesting, from each of a plurality of extraction modules to extract content from electronic documents, extraction of content from the web page, where extraction is requested from at least one of the plurality of extraction modules based on feedback scores for the plurality of extraction modules meeting threshold feedback scores derived from prior user feedback received from a plurality of client devices;

receiving, from each of the plurality extraction modules, an extraction of content for the web page, each extraction comprising content obtained from the web page, wherein the content of each extraction is different from the content of each other extraction;

selecting, from the plurality of extraction modules, a particular extraction module based on at least one characteristic of the extraction provided by the particular extraction module; and

providing data specifying the extraction provided by the particular extraction module to a print service that causes presentation of a print-ready document at the client device, the print-ready document including the content obtained from the web page by the particular extraction module.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one characteristics of each extraction include at least one of:

an amount of text extracted from the web page;

a measure of quality associated with each type of text extracted from the web page;

a number of advertisements extracted from the web page;

a number of non-textual content items extracted from the web page; and

a measure of quality associated with each type of non-textual content item extracted from the web page.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, from the client device, user feedback indicating a measure of quality of the print-ready document;

adjusting a feedback score for the particular extraction module based on the user feedback; and

in response to the feedback score for the particular extraction module meeting a threshold feedback score;

identifying the extraction module as a whitelist extraction module for the web page, the whitelist extraction module being selected as a default extraction module for subsequent requests for print-ready documents specifying the web page.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

identifying at least one classification for the web page, each classification being associated with a type of content presented at web pages having the classification;

wherein each classification is associated with a plurality of class extraction modules, and wherein the plurality of extraction modules for which extraction is requested are selected from the plurality of class extraction modules associated with each of the at least one of identified classifications for the web page.