COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR PRINTING A PAGE AND GENERATING INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS

• US 20090080016A1
• Filed: 07/24/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Newman, Andrew Timothy Robert, Lapstun, Paul, Hollins, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 8,107,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1265 Printing by reference, e.g. retrieving document/image data for a job from a source mentioned in the job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding

Abstract

A computer system for printing a page at a printer. The computer system is configured to: (i) receive a visual description for the page, the visual description describing a graphic impression for printing; (ii) identify a URI text string in the visual description; (iii) generate a corresponding input description for the visual description, the input description describing a URI corresponding to the URI text string and a spatial extent of the URI text string on the page; and (iv) archive the visual description and the corresponding input description.

Claims

1. A computer system for printing a page at a printer, wherein said computer system is configured to:

receive a visual description for said page, said visual description describing a graphic impression for printing;

identify a URI text string in the visual description;

generate a corresponding input description for said visual description, said input description describing a URI corresponding to the URI text string and a spatial extent of the URI text string on the page; and

archive the visual description and the corresponding input description.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein said visual description and said input description are archived on a server.

3. The computer system of claim 1, which is configured to print a tag pattern on the page, wherein the tag pattern comprises an impression identity.

4. The computer system of claim 3, wherein the visual description and input description are indexed by the impression identity.

5. The computer system of claim 3, wherein the tag pattern is a position-coding pattern identifying a plurality of locations on said page.

6. The computer system of claim 1, which is configured to alter the visual description of the URI text string when it is identified as a URI.

7. The computer system of claim 1, which is selected from the group comprising:

a printer driver;

a server; and

a server in communication with a printer driver running on a client.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of altering the visual description of the URI text string when it is identified as a URI.

8. A method of printing a page at a printer, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving a visual description for said page, said visual description describing a graphic impression for printing;

identifying a URI text string in the visual description;

generating a corresponding input description for said visual description, said input description describing the URI and spatial extent of the URI text string on the page;

archiving the visual description and the corresponding input description; and

printing the graphic impression,

wherein said graphic impression is superimposed with a position-coding pattern on the page.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said position-coding pattern is pre-printed on a substrate.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein said position-coding pattern is printed by the printer substantially simultaneously with said graphic impression.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein said position-coding pattern identifies a plurality of locations on said page and an impression identity.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said visual description and said input description are indexed by said impression identity.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said visual description and said input description are archived on a server.