Recommending print locations

• US 8,972,278 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Sandholm, Thomas E., Ferreira Martins, Jose Diego, Correa Azzolin, Deny Joao
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss, John G
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHORNESKY, ADAM B
• Application Number:
  US13/233,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20130073358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,265 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.11, 705/14.19, 705/14.48, 705/14.69
• US Class Current: 705/14.19
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for recommending print locations. Recommending print locations can include receiving recommendation, user, and geographic information for a first mobile print location (MPL) and a second MPL. Recommending print locations can also include indexing the recommendation, user, and geographic information for each of the first MPL and the second MPL as an automatically created uniform resource indicator (URI) on an MPL system. Furthermore, recommending print locations can include ranking the first MPL and the second MPL based on the recommendation, user, and geographic information and presenting a list, via a user interface, of the ranked first MPL and the second MPL.

Claims

1. A method for recommending mobile print locations, comprising:

receiving recommendation, user, and geographic information for a first mobile print location (MPL) and a second MPL from a network node,

wherein the recommendation information includes a recommendation credit identifier that when used as a recommendation for at least one of the first MPL and the second MPL decrements a predetermined recommendation credit identifier budget, using a processing resource;

indexing, in a database, the recommendation, user and geographic information for each of the first MPL and the second MPL as an automatically created uniform resource indicator (URI) on an MPL system;

ranking the first MPL and the second MPL based on the recommendation, user, and geographic information; and

presenting a list, via a user interface, of the ranked first MPL and the second MPL.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising searching and decoding the first MPL and the second MPL using the automatically created URI.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommendation information is received using a recommender system.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising facilitating, via the recommender system, the providing of incentives to MPL providers to offer MPL services to users.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the list is sorted by at least one of the name of the MPL, a distance from a mobile device to the first and second MPL, a combination of the recommendation and geographic information, and a performance recommendation given to at least one of the first and second MPLs by a user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the quantity of recommendation information received from a single user is limited to a predetermined temporal budget.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommendation, user, and geographic information are stored in a database on the MPL system.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, via the user interface, a received user comment relating to each of the first and second MPLs.