Single action print application creation

• US 9,875,066 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2012
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Goyal, Anurag, Anand, Raj, S., Venugopal K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Leland, III, Edwin S
• Application Number:
  US13/455,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20130286429A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,099 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115, 715 76
• 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 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1225 Software update, e.g. print driver, modules, plug-ins, fonts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/123 Software or firmware update, e.g. device firmware management
• 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 3/1289 in server-client-printer device configuration, e.g. the server does not see the printer

Abstract

A method of creating a print application by a single action comprises appending a print application creation button to a browser instance displayed on a user device, receiving a single action user input on the user device to add content displayed in the browser instance as a print application, and creating the print application based on the content. A system for creating a print application comprises a user device communicatively coupled to a server, the user device comprising a processor, a data storage device, and a native print application to display a print application creation button in association with content displayed in a browser instance and obtain data related to the content displayed in the browser instance.

Claims

1. A method of creating a print application by a single action comprising:

appending, by a processor of a user device, a print application creation button to a browser instance displayed on the user device, wherein the print application creation button is generated from a software application installed on the user device;

in response to receiving a single action of a user selection of the print application creation button, capturing, by the processor of the user device, content of a webpage displayed in the browser instance; and

transferring, by the processor of the user device, the captured content to a server for the server to create and store a print application based on the captured content,

wherein, in response to an execution of the print application, the content of the webpage, from which the print application is created, is offered to a user for selection and printing.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising installing the software application that generates the print application creation button on the user device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a network account associated with the user device, in which the network account associates the print application with a printing device communicatively coupled to the user device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing metadata related to the content displayed on the browser instance upon selection of the print application creation button.

5. The method of claim 4, in which the metadata related to the content comprises the universal resource locator (URL) of the webpage on which the content is published, the really simple syndication (RSS) feeds of the URL at which the content is published, metadata associated with a country utilized by the user device, and metadata associated with a language utilized by the user device.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the metadata related to the content comprises the really simple syndication (RSS) feeds of a URL at which the content is published.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding the print application to a printing device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is to manage the print application, including deleting the print application or combining the print application with other print applications.

9. The method of claim 8, in which combining print applications comprises adding URLs of RSS feeds of a number of print applications as different entries of a to-be-created print application.

10. A user device comprising:

a processor;

a data storage device; and

a native print application installed on the user device to generate a print application creation button to be added to content of a webpage displayed in a browser instance,

wherein the data storage device stores instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

append the print application creation button generated by the native print application to the content of the webpage displayed in the browser instance executed on the user device, and

in response to receipt of a user selection of the print application creation button, capture the content of the webpage displayed in the browser instance and transfer the captured content to a server for the server to create a print application based on the captured content of the webpage,

wherein, in response to an execution of the print application by the processor, the content of the webpage, on which the print application is created, is offered to a user for selection and printing.

11. The user device of claim 10, wherein the instructions are further to cause the processor to capture metadata related to the content displayed on the browser instance and transmit the captured metadata to the server for the server to create the print application based on the metadata related to the content displayed in the browser instance.

12. The user device of claim 11, wherein the server stores the print application.

13. The user device of claim 10, wherein the user device is connected to a printing device for receiving the print application from the server and reproducing the content of the webpage from the print application for printing.

14. The user device of claim 10, further comprising a printing device, in which the printing device instructs the print application creator to create the print application based on the data related to the content displayed in the browser instance.

15. The user device of claim 10, wherein the print application creation button is appended to a portion of a display not associated with the browser instance.

16. The user device of claim 10, wherein the print application creation button is appended to a portion of the browser instance not associated with a control element of the browser instance.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

append a print application creation button to a browser instance displayed on a user device, wherein the print application creation button is generated from a software application installed on the user device;

receive a single action user input on the user device to add content from a webpage displayed in the browser instance as a print application;

create the print application based on the content; and

in response to an execution of the print application, offer content from the webpage on which the print application is created, to a user for selection and printing.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to capture metadata related to the content displayed on the browser instance upon selection of the print application creation button by the user, wherein the captured metadata related to the content is transmitted to the server in extensible markup language (XML) format.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to append the print application creation button to a toolbar of the browser instance.