Systems and methods for printing content associated with a website

• US 9,182,932 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2008
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Chopra, Ashish, Garg, Saurabh
• Primary Examiner(s): WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL
• Application Number:
  US12/202,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20090119260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,626 Days
• Field of Search: 707/999.003, 707/754
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1219 with regard to consumables, e.g. ink, toner, paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1254 Automatic configuration, e.g. by driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1289 in server-client-printer device configuration, e.g. the server does not see the printer

Abstract

Systems and methods for communicating with a network device are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a computing device that is electrically coupled to a printing device, the computing device being configured to access a website through a network, the computing device including a print manager in memory, the print manager being configured to: retrieve content associated with the website, receive input data associated with filter criteria, filter the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria, and instruct the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content.

Claims

1. A printing device for automatically printing content associated with a website accessible through a network, the printing device comprising:

a print engine; and

a print manager in memory, the print manager to;

receive and store an address of the website in the memory,

access the website using the address of the website stored in the memory in response to determining that the content associated with the website is to be printed,

periodically retrieve the content associated with the website at the time the content associated with the website is to be printed in response to accessing the website,

receive input data associated with filter criteria,

filter the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria, and

periodically instruct the print engine to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content to facilitate the automatic printing of the content, wherein the period for instructing the print engine to print is based on print criteria, wherein the print criteria includes a frequency with which the content associated with the website is to be printed,

wherein the print manager filters the content associated with the website by decoding tags embedded at the website based on the filter criteria,

wherein the printing device comprises an embedded web server and a user interface to receive user input regarding the filter criteria and the print criteria.

2. The printing device as defined in claim 1, wherein the input data includes at least one of the following:

blogger names, keywords, and a date range.

3. The printing device as defined in claim 1, wherein the frequency includes at least one of daily, weekly, monthly or bimonthly.

4. The printing device as defined in claim 1, wherein the print manager provides a web page that includes the filtered content before printing the filtered content.

5. The printing device as defined in claim 1, wherein the print manager is further configured to provide a print option that includes input entries for a user to enter the input data associated with the filter criteria.

6. The printing device of claim 1, wherein the filtering further comprises removing an advertisement from the content associated with the website.

7. The printing device of claim 1, wherein the website is a blog associated with a stock market and wherein the input data associated with the filter criteria is a company name.

8. The printing device of claim 1, wherein the frequency with which the content associated with the website is to be printed is based on the updating of the content of the website.

9. A method for automatically printing content associated with a website comprising:

storing an address of the website in memory of a printing device;

accessing, by the printing device, the website using the address of the website stored in the memory in response to determining that the content associated with the website is to be printed;

periodically retrieving the content associated with the website at the time filtered content associated with the website is to be printed in response to the accessing;

receiving, by a print manager, input data associated with filter criteria;

filtering, by the print manager, the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria; and

periodically providing instructions from the print manager causing the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content to facilitate the automatic printing of the content;

wherein the period for retrieving and the period for instructing the print device to print is based on print criteria, wherein the print criteria includes a frequency with which the content associated with the website is to be printed;

wherein filtering the content associated with the website is achieved by way of decoding tags embedded at the website,

wherein the printing device comprises a user interface to receive user input regarding the filter criteria and the print criteria,

wherein the print manager displays the website on the user interface and incorporates a print option on the website comprising input options associated with the filter criteria and the print criteria.

10. The method as defined in claim 9, further comprising receiving, by the print manager, the address of the website.

11. The method as defined in claim 9, wherein the frequency includes at least one of daily, weekly, monthly or bimonthly.

12. The method as defined in claim 9, further comprising displaying a web page that includes the filtered content before printing the filtered content.

13. The method as defined in claim 9, further comprising providing a print option at the printing device, that includes input entries for a user to enter the input data associated with the filter criteria.

14. A print manager of a printing device, for printing content associated with a website, the print manager stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the print manager comprising:

logic for storing, by the print manager, an address of the website in memory;

logic for accessing, by the print manager, the website using the address of the website in response to determining, by the print manager, that the content associated with the website is to be printed;

logic for periodically retrieving, by the print manager, the content associated with the website at the time filtered content associated with the website is to be printed in response to the accessing;

logic for receiving, by the print manager, input data associated with filter criteria;

logic for filtering, by the print manager, the content associated with the website based on the input data associated with the filter criteria; and

logic for periodically instructing, by the print manager, the printing device to print the filtered content that includes a portion of the retrieved content;

wherein the period for retrieving and the period for instructing the print device to print is based on print criteria, wherein the print criteria includes a frequency with which the content associated with the website is to be printed;

wherein the logic for filtering the content associated with the website is achieved by way of decoding tags embedded at the website,

wherein the printing device comprises an embedded web server and a user interface to receive user input regarding the filter criteria and the print criteria.

15. The print manager as defined in claim 14, further comprising logic for receiving, by the print manager, the address of the website.

16. The print manager as defined in claim 14, wherein the frequency includes at least one of daily, weekly, monthly or bimonthly.

17. The print manager as defined in claim 14, further comprising logic for displaying a web page that includes the filtered content before printing the filtered content.

18. The print manager as defined in claim 14, further comprising logic for providing, by the print manager, a print option at the printing device that includes input entries for a user to enter the input data associated with the filter criteria.