Mechanism for Generating Banner Advertisements in a Printer System
OwnerRobert Frederic Jessen, Kristin Reischelinventors
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Abstract
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a display page system having a storage device to store content for banner messages to be included in banner advertisements and a page generator to select one or more banner messages from the stored content upon detecting a trigger event and generate a banner advertisement that includes the selected banner messages. The printing system also includes a user interface having a display component to display the banner advertisement.
Claims34
A printing system comprising:
- a display page system, including:
- a storage device to store content for banner messages to be included in banner advertisements;
- and
- a page generator to select one or more banner messages from the stored content upon detecting a trigger event and generate a banner advertisement that includes the selected banner messages;
- and
- a user interface having a display component to display the banner advertisement.
A method comprising:
- detecting a trigger event at a printing system;
- selecting one or more banner messages upon detecting the trigger event;
- generating a banner advertisement including the selected banner messages;
- and
- displaying the banner advertisement at a display component at the printing system.
A multifunction printer comprising:
- a user interface, including:
- an input component;
- and
- a display component;
- and
- a controller to select one or more banner messages from stored content upon detecting activity at the input component and generate a banner advertisement that includes the selected banner messages to be displayed at the display component.
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- detecting a trigger event at a printing system;
- selecting one or more banner messages upon detecting the trigger event;
- generating a banner advertisement including the selected banner messages;
- and
- displaying the banner advertisement at a display component at the printing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.