Data transfer system, method of transferring data, and system

• US 9,727,287 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2013
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo BV (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo BV (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Krasnovsky, Lior, Alon, Gershon, Amir, Gideon, Shaham, Noam
• Primary Examiner(s): Menberu, Beniyam
• Application Number:
  US14/782,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1244 Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1275 Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1276 within a printer driver, e.g. driver resides either on a server or on a client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

A data transfer system includes a virtual printer driver to receive a report from a first system, the report in the form of a print job, and to generate an electronic document representative of the report; and an extraction module to extract a parameter from the electronic document, format the parameter in a first format, and provide the parameter in the first format to a second system.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that when executed cause a processor to:

receive a visual representation of a report describing a print job from a virtual printer driver, wherein the virtual printer driver is to receive the report describing the print job from a first system and to generate an electronic document that provides the visual representation of the report;

identify format information in the visual representation of the report;

use the format information to identify a heading in the visual representation of the report and a keyword in the heading in the visual representation of the report;

use the identified keyword as an anchor to determine boundaries of a region in the visual representation of the report;

extract a parameter from the region;

format the parameter in a first format; and

provide the parameter in the first format to a second system.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the visual representation of the report is a portable document format (PDF) file.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to identify location information in the visual representation of the report.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the report, when printed, is to include a textual description of the parameter.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first system is a print service provider, the report describes a print production job, and the second system is a production manager.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the report is a job ticket.

7. A system comprising:

a processing device;

a virtual printer driver to receive a report describing a print job from a print service provider, and to generate an electronic document that provides a visual representation of the report;

an extraction module including instructions that when executed cause the processing device to identify format information in the visual representation of the report, use the format information to identify a heading in the visual representation of the report and a keyword in the heading in the visual representation of the report, use the identified keyword as an anchor to determine boundaries of a region in the visual representation of the report, extract a parameter from the region, and format the parameter in a first format; and

a production manager to receive the parameter in the first format from the extraction module.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the visual representation of the report is a portable document format (PDF) file.

9. A method of transferring data, the method comprising:

receiving, at a virtual printer driver, a report describing a print job from a first system;

generating, by the virtual printer driver, an electronic document that provides a visual representation of the report;

identifying format information in the visual representation of the report;

using the format information to identify a heading in the visual representation of the report and a keyword in the heading in the visual representation of the report;

using the identified keyword as an anchor to determine boundaries of a region in the visual representation of the report;

extracting a parameter from the region;

formatting the parameter in a first format; and

providing the parameter in the first format to a second system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the visual representation of the report is a portable document format (PDF) file.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the report, when printed, is to include a textual description of the parameter.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the first system is a print service provider, the report describes a print production job, and the second system is a production manager.