Method and system of printing isolated sections from documents

• US 20050198572A1
• Filed: 02/12/2004
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dietz, Timothy Alan, Holloway, Lane Thomas, Quiller, Marques Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US10/777,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20050198572A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/274
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces

Abstract

A system, method, and related computer program for isolating sections of data from a document for printing said designated data from received documents from the World Wide Web and like networks, or from documents such as pdf files, source code files, presentation, spread sheet, and Word documents. An interactive browser associated with each of the receiving stations in the network accesses received documents from the network and displays the documents at any receiving display station. The user is then able to isolate designated data and print only the designated data without the extraneous displayable data included in the received document. The browser further includes means for copying the designated data to create a secondary document having a document format structure which is independent of the format structure of the underlying received document. There is provided mean for storing this secondary document in association with the browser which is independent of said received Web document.

Claims

1. In a communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received documents of at least one display page containing formatted text and image data, and available from sources on the network, a system for eliminating extraneous displayable data from received documents comprising:

network interactive browser means associated with each of said receiving stations for accessing said received documents from the network and displaying said documents at said receiving display stations;

said network browser means further including;

means for isolating data in a displayed received document using divider tags;

means enabling a user to print the isolated data designated by a user; and

means for copying said designated data to create a secondary document having a document format structure independent of a format structure of the received document.

2. The communication network of claim 1 wherein said communication network is the World Wide Web (Web), and said network documents are Web documents.

3. The Web network of claim 2 wherein said documents are E-mail documents.

4. The Web network of claim 3 further including means for storing said secondary document independent of said received Web document.

5. The Web network of claim 2 wherein there are uncopied extraneous graphics and text remaining in said underlying Web document.

6. The Web network of claim 3 wherein there are unprinted extraneous graphics and text in said underlying Web document.

7. In a communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received documents of at least one display page containing text and images, and available from sources on the network, a method for eliminating extraneous displayable data from received documents comprising:

a network interactive browser process associated with each of said receiving stations for accessing said received documents from the network and displaying said documents at said receiving display stations;

said network browser process further including the steps of;

isolating data in a displayed received document using divider tags;

enabling a user to print the isolated data designated by a user; and

copying said designated data to create a secondary document having a document format structure independent of a format structure of the received document.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein said communication network is the World Wide Web (Web), and said network documents are Web documents.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein said documents are E-mail documents.

10. The method of claim 9 further including the step of storing said secondary document independent of said received Web document.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein there are uncopied extraneous graphics and text remaining in said underlying Web document.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein there are unprinted extraneous graphics and text in said underlying Web document.

13. A network browser computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium associated with each of said receiving stations for eliminating extraneous displayable data from received documents in a communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received documents of at least one display page containing text and images, and available from sources on the network, for printing, said browser program comprising:

means for accessing said received documents from the network and

displaying said documents at said receiving display stations;

means for isolating data in a displayed received document using divider tags;

means enabling a user to print the isolated data designated by a user; and

means for copying said designated data to create a secondary document having a document format structure independent of a format structure of the received document.

14. The computer program of claim 13 wherein said communication network is the World Wide Web (Web), and said network documents are Web documents.

15. The computer program of claim 14 wherein said documents are E-mail documents.

16. The computer program of claim 15 further including means for storing said secondary document independent of said received Web document.

17. The computer program of claim 14 wherein there are uncopied extraneous graphics and text remaining in said underlying Web document.

18. The computer program of claim 15 wherein there are unprinted extraneous graphics and text in said underlying Web document.