Content feed printing

• US 9,773,214 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2012
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramaiah Nanjundaiah, Vishwanath, Kumarahalli Srinivasmurthy, Venugopal
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Thierry L
• Application Number:
  US13/567,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20140036303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,877 Days
• Field of Search: 358 11, 358 19, 358 111, 358 112, 358 113, 358 114, 358 115, 358 116, 358 117, 358 118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• 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 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1269 by broadcasting server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A user requests a plurality of content feeds. Content associated with the content feeds is periodically retrieved and converted to a print format. Contents associated with the content feeds are stored in the print format. Indications corresponding to the content feeds are provided to a network connected printer and displayed on a user interface thereof, including an indication that new content is available in the print format.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a portal configured to receive requests from a user for a plurality of content feeds;

a feed conversion module configured to periodically retrieve content associated with the content feeds, the feed conversion module configured to convert the retrieved content to print format;

a memory accessible by the feed conversion module configured to store the converted content in print format; and

wherein the feed conversion module is further configured to provide indications corresponding to the content feeds to a network connected printer having a user interface, the indications including an indication to be displayed at the user interface that new content comprising the converted content in print format is available for printing,

wherein the network connected printer is configured to print converted content according to a predetermined schedule, where a printing schedule differs from a schedule for retrieving content; and

wherein a content feed has hierarchical content with at least three levels, and wherein the system further comprises an application generation engine configured to;

dynamically instantiate a content connection application via an instance of a pre-defined declarative data structure engine that incorporates the content feed; and

traverse the hierarchy of content to generate a print job.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein a content feed has content structured as a hierarchy tree having intermediate nodes that each represent a category of content, and leaf nodes that each represent printable content.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the content is stored in a hierarchical structure, including an intermediate node, reflective of the structure of the content feed.

2. A method, comprising:

receiving requests from a user for a plurality of content feeds;

periodically retrieving, by an application generation engine, content associated with the content feeds;

converting, by the application generation engine, the retrieved contents to a print format;

storing the converted content in the print format in a memory; and

printing the converted content as the converted content becomes available,

wherein a content feed has content structured as a hierarchy tree having intermediate nodes that each represent a category of content and leaf nodes that each represent printable content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the content feeds include an RSS feed.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the content feeds include bookmarked web sites.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein a content feed has hierarchical content with at least three levels, and wherein the method further comprises:

dynamically instantiating a content connection application via an instance of a pre-defined declarative data structure engine that incorporates the content feed; and

traversing the hierarchy of content to generate a print job.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method, comprising:

receiving requests from a user for a plurality of content feeds;

periodically retrieving content associated with the content feeds;

consolidating the retrieved content from the plurality of content feeds based on metadata;

converting the consolidated content to a print format by a processor;

storing the converted content in the print format in a network connected memory;

displaying indications corresponding to the converted content on a printer user interface, the indications including an indication that new content comprising the converted content in the print format is ready for printing; and

printing the converted content.

7. The on-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving requests from the user for a plurality of bookmarked web sites.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein printing the converted content includes printing according to a predetermined schedule.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein printing the converted content includes printing the converted content as the converted content becomes available.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein a content feed has hierarchical content with at least three levels, and wherein the method further comprises:

dynamically instantiating a content connection application via an instance of a pre-defined declarative data structure engine that incorporates the content feed; and

traversing the hierarchy of content to generate a print job.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein a content feed has content structured as a hierarchy tree having intermediate nodes that each represent a category of content, and leaf nodes that each represent printable content.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein printing of the content feeds may be performed using each of the following modes:

in response to selection of the indication by a user via the printer user interface;

printing according to a predetermined schedule; and

printing as new content becomes available.