Content retrieval via assignments

• US 9,077,832 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Ganesan, Kumaravel, Jha, Ritesh Ranjan
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, King
• Assistant Examiner(s): Siddo, Ibrahim
• Application Number:
  US13/249,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20130083350A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,376 Days
• Field of Search: 358 11- 118, 358 11- 19, 358 111- 118
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1271 Job submission at the printing node, e.g. creating a job from a data stored locally or remotely G06F3/1238 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00429 using a navigation tree
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2187 with image input from a plurality of different locations or from a non-central location, e.g. from one or more users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2191 for simultaneous, independent access by a plurality of different users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network

Abstract

In one embodiment, a first assignment is received. The first assignment is an assignment of a category tag to first content accessible via a first printer application. A second assignment is received. The second assignment is an assignment of the category tag to second content accessible via a second printer application. The first and second assignments are stored. Functionality to facilitate retrieval of content via the assignments is provided to a network-connected printer. A request to print selected content from among the first and second content is received. Responsive to the request, the selected content is retrieved, raster processed, and sent to the printer.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, the instructions when executed cause a device including a processor to:

receive, at the device, a first assignment by a user of a category tag to first content accessible via a first printer application of a printer communicating with a first server different than the printer and the device and on which the first content is stored, and a second assignment by the user of the category tag to second content accessible via a second printer application of the printer communicating with a second server different than the printer, the device, and the first server and on which the second content is stored;

responsive to receiving the first and second assignments, store, at the device, the first and second assignments;

provide, from the device to the printer, functionality to facilitate retrieval of content via the assignments;

receive, at the device and from the printer via the functionality provided to the printer, a request to print selected content from among the first and second content;

responsive to the request,

retrieve, at the device, the selected content from one or more of the first and second servers,

raster process, at the device, the selected content, and

send, from the device to the printer, the selected content as raster processed for printing at the printer.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the functionality is a first functionality, and wherein the instructions further cause the device to send a second functionality to enable assignment of the category tag to content.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first and second assignments are received from the printer based on input by the user.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first and second assignments are received from a computing device other than the printer based on input by the user.

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first and second assignments are stored within one of a database and a lookup table.

6. The medium of claim 1, wherein the request is directed by the user.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein the user is a first user, and the request is directed by a second user.

8. The medium of claim 7, further comprising receiving an instruction directed by the first user to permit the second user to access the first and second assignments.

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first assignment and the second assignment are received at the device from a network-connected printer different than the device.

10. The medium of claim 1, wherein the functionality includes program code, wherein providing the functionality comprises sending, from the device to the printer, the program code, and wherein the request is received at the device from the printer using the program code at the printer.

11. The medium of claim 1, wherein receiving the first assignment of the category tag comprises receiving the first assignment of the category tag created by the user in a graphical user interface.

12. The medium of claim 1, wherein the category tag of the first and second assignments indicate that the first content and the second content are part of a same category selected from a plurality of categories presented in a graphical user interface to the user.

13. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first and second assignments are responsive to user selection of the category tag based on a plurality of categories presented in a graphical user interface.

14. A computing device comprising:

an assignments module, configured to receive

a first assignment by a user of a category tag to first content accessible via a first printer application, and

a second assignment by the user of the category tag to second content accessible via a second printer application, the first content inaccessible directly via the second printer application, the second content inaccessible directly via the first printer application, the second content different than the first content;

a storage module, configured to store the first and second assignments;

a functionality module, configured to send to a network-connected printer functionality including program code that facilitates retrieval of content via the assignments;

a receipt module, configured to receive a request to print selected content from among the first and second content, the request produced using the program code at the network-connected printer;

a retrieval module, configured, responsive to the request, to;

retrieve the selected content,

raster process the selected content, and

send the raster processed selected content to the printer.

15. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the first and second assignments are received from the printer based on input by the user.

16. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the first and second assignments are received from a computing device other than the printer based on input by the user.

17. The computing device of claim 14, wherein receiving the first assignment of the category tag comprises receiving the first assignment of the category tag created by the user in a graphical user interface.

18. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the category tag of the first and second assignments indicate that the first content and the second content are part of a same category selected from a plurality of categories presented in a graphical user interface to the user.

19. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the first and second assignments are responsive to user selection of the category tag based on a plurality of categories presented in a graphical user interface.

20. A method comprising:

sending a first functionality to enable a first user to assign category tags to content;

receiving, by a computing device, a first assignment by the first user of a category tag to first content accessible via a first printer application, and a second assignment by the first user of the category tag to second content accessible via a second printer application, the first content inaccessible directly via the second printer application, the second content inaccessible directly via the first printer application, the second content different than the first content;

storing, by the computing device, the first and second assignments;

sending, by the computing device, to a network-connected printer a second functionality to facilitate retrieval of content via the assignments;

receiving, by the computing device, via the second functionality at the direction of a second user, a request to print selected content from among the first and second content;

responsive to the request, the computing device;

retrieving the selected content,

raster processing the selected content, and

sending the raster processed selected content to the printer.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the category tag of the first and second assignments indicate that the first content and the second content are part of a same category selected from a plurality of categories presented in a graphical user interface to the user.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the first and second assignments are responsive to user selection of the category tag based on a plurality of categories presented in a graphical user interface.

23. the method of claim 20, wherein receiving the first assignment of the category tag comprises receiving the first assignment of the category tag created by the user in a graphical user interface.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the functionality includes program code, wherein providing the functionality comprises sending, from the system to the printer, the program code, and wherein the request is received at the system from the printer using the program code at the printer.