Systems And Methods For Printing Content Associated With A Website

• US 20090119260A1
• Filed: 09/01/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Garg, Saurabh, Chopra, Ashish
• Granted Patent: US 9,182,932 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1219 with regard to consumables, e.g. ink, toner, paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1254 Automatic configuration, e.g. by driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1289 in server-client-printer device configuration, e.g. the server does not see the printer

Abstract

Systems and methods for communicating with a network device are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a computing device that is electrically coupled to a printing device, the computing device being configured to access a website through a network, the computing device including a print manager in memory, the print manager being configured to: retrieve content associated with the website, receive input data associated with filter criteria, filter the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria, and instruct the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content.

Claims

1. A system for printing content associated with a website comprising:

a computing device that is electrically coupled to a printing device, the computing device being configured to access a website through a network, the computing device including a print manager in memory, the print manager being configured to;

retrieve content associated with the website,

receive input data associated with filter criteria,

filter the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria, and

instruct the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content.

2. The system as defined in claim 1, wherein the input data includes at least one of the following:

blogger names, keywords, and a date range.

3. The system as defined in claim 1, wherein the print manager is further configured to retrieve the content associated with the website based on print criteria, the print criteria including the number of times the content associated with the website is printed in a period of time, the number of times in a period of time including daily, weekly, monthly or bimonthly.

4. The system as defined in claim 3, wherein the print manager is further configured to:

receive and store an address of the website in the memory, and

responsive to determining that the content associated with the website is to be printed, access the website using the address of the website stored in the memory and retrieve the content associated with the website at the time the filtered content associated with the website is to be printed.

5. The system as defined in claim 4, wherein the print manager filters the content associated with the website by decoding tags embedded at the website based on the filter criteria.

6. The system as defined in claim 5, wherein the print manager displays a web page that includes the filtered content before printing the filtered content.

7. The system as defined in claim 1, wherein the print manager is further configured to provide a print option that includes input entries for a user to enter the input data associated with the filter criteria.

8. A method for printing content associated with a website comprising:

accessing a website through a network;

retrieving content associated with the website;

receiving input data associated with filter criteria, the input data includes at least one of the following;

blogger names, keywords, and a date range;

filtering the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria; and

instructing the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content.

9. The method as defined in claim 8, further comprising receiving an address of the website.

10. The method as defined in claim 8, further comprising retrieving the content associated with the website based on print criteria, the print criteria including the number of times the content associated with the website is printed in a period of time, the number of times in a period of time including daily, weekly, monthly or bimonthly.

11. The method as defined in claim 10, further comprising:

storing an address of the website in memory; and

responsive to determining that the content associated with the website is to be printed, accessing the website using the address of the website stored in the memory and retrieving the content associated with the website at the time the filtered content associated with the website is to be printed.

12. The method as defined in claim 11, wherein filtering the content associated with the website is achieved by way of decoding tags embedded at the website.

13. The method as defined in claim 8, further comprising displaying a web page that includes the filtered content before printing the filtered content.

14. The method as defined in claim 8, further comprising providing a print option that includes input entries for a user to enter the input data associated with the filter criteria.

15. A print manager for printing content associated with a website, the manager stored on a computer-readable medium, the manager comprising:

logic for retrieving content associated with the website;

logic for receiving input data associated with filter criteria, the input data includes at least one of following;

a blogger name, keyword, and a date range;

logic for filtering the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria; and

logic for instructing the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content.

16. The print manager as defined in claim 15, further comprising logic for receiving an address of the website.

17. The print manager as defined in claim 15, furthering comprising logic for retrieving the content associated with the website based on print criteria, the print criteria including the number of times the content associated with the website is printed in a period of time, the number of times in a period of time including daily, weekly, monthly or bimonthly.

18. The print manager as defined in claim 17, further comprising:

logic for storing an address of the website in memory; and

responsive to determining that the content associated with the website is to be printed, logic for accessing the website using the address of the website and logic for retrieving the content associated with the website at the time the filtered content associated with the website is to be printed.

19. The print manager as defined in claim 18, wherein the logic for filtering the content associated with the website is achieved by way of decoding tags embedded at the website.

20. The print manager as defined in claim 15, further comprising logic for displaying a web page that includes the filtered content before printing the filtered content.

21. The print manager as defined in claim 15, further comprising logic for providing a print option that includes input entries for a user to enter the input data associated with the filter criteria.