Method and system for providing print content to a client

• US 9,152,357 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2011
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hwang, Peter G, Liu, Jerry J, Lim, Suk Hwan, O'Brien-Strain, Eamonn, Ngai, Terence C
• Primary Examiner(s): Hon, Ming
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US13/032,824
• Publication Number:
  US 20120212772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,686 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1271 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 3/1287 via internet

Abstract

A request for print content is received at a network server system. The request includes variable user input. Webpage content is obtained based at least in part on the variable user input. A subset of the webpage content is identified as print content. A print-ready layout of the print content is formed and the print content in the print-ready layout is provided, via network connection, to a client in response to the request.

Claims

1. A method for providing print content to a client, comprising:

receiving a request for print content at a server system, the request including variable user input;

obtaining webpage content based at least in part on the variable user input;

prioritizing the webpage content based on printability, printability determined by a likelihood of producing a print with a quality above a defined threshold based on location of content on the webpage, hypertext markup language (HTML) page structure, and image resolution;

identifying a subset of the prioritized webpage content as print content;

forming a print-ready layout of the print content; and

providing, via a network connection, the print content in the print-ready layout to a client in response to the request,

in which providing the print content to the client comprises providing multiple options of print-ready layouts to the client, the print-ready layouts being presented in an order based at least in part on crowed behaviors related to past selections of the multiple options of print-ready layouts.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the print content in the print-ready layout comprises at least one of:

providing the printable content for display on a display screen;

providing the printable content in a format for printing.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a web-service to the client to facilitate a user submitting the request for print content.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information associated with a user'"'"'s selection of one of the multiple provided options of print content; and

augmenting a database with the information to improve the relevance of print content provided in response to future requests for print content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the print-ready layout is optimized based on at least one of:

popularity of the print content;

printability of the print content.

6. The method of claim 1, in which forming a print-ready layout of the print content comprise creating a mash-up of content from different sources in a layout on a single page.

7. A system for providing print content to

a client, comprising:

a processor;

a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory comprising;

a print request module to receive a request for print content according to search parameters submitted by a user;

a search module to obtain webpage content based at least in part on the user-submitted search parameters;

a prioritization module to prioritize the webpage content according to printability, printability determined by a likelihood of producing a print with a quality above a defined threshold based on location of content on the webpage;

a filter module to extract print content from the prioritized webpage content;

a layout module to arrange the print content in a print-ready layout; and

a network interface module to provide a plurality of choices of print content in the print-ready layout to a client in response to the request.

8. The system of claim 7, in which the prioritization module further prioritizes the webpage content according to at least one of:

relevance; and

popularity.

9. The system of claim 7, the layout module further to optimize the print-ready layout based on at least one of:

popularity of the print content; and

printability of the print content.

10. The system of claim 7, in which the network interface module further comprises providing multiple options of print-ready layouts to the client, the print-ready layouts being presented in an order based at least in part on crowed behaviors related to past selections of the multiple options of print-ready layouts.

11. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

a database to store data associated with a user'"'"'s selection of one of the plurality of choices of print content in the print-ready layout.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

an accuracy module to analyze the data in the database to improve the relevance of print content provided in response to future requests for print content.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to:

receive a request for print content via a network connection, the request including variable user input;

obtain webpage content based at least in part on the variable user input;

prioritize the webpage content base on printability, printability determined by a likelihood of producing a print with a quality above a defined threshold base on location of content on the webpage, hypertext markup language (HTML) page structure, and image resolution;

determine a subset of the prioritized webpage content as print content;

generate a print-ready layout of the print content; and

provide, via the network connection, the print content in the print-ready layout to a client in response to the request,

wherein obtaining webpage content based at least in part on the variable user input comprises traversing a plurality of links to a number of pages within the webpage content, and

wherein providing the print content to the client comprises providing multiple options of print-ready layouts to the client, the print-ready layouts being presented in an order based at least in part on crowd behaviors related to past selections of the multiple options of print-ready layouts.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, in which providing the print content in the print-ready layout comprises at least one of:

providing the printable content for display on a display screen;

providing the printable content in a format for printing.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to:

receive information associated with a user'"'"'s selection of one of the multiple provided options of print content; and

augment a database with the information to improve the relevance of print content provided in response to future request for print content.