Document delivery system for automatically printing a document on a printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAloke Gupta, Donald X Smith, II, Kenneth H Bronstein, Pieter J van Zee
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Abstract
A method for printing one or more documents operatively coupled to a printing device is presented, the method comprising issuing a request to retrieve one or more documents from an associated one or more providers in response to an indication received from a user. Receiving the requested one or more documents in a print manager operatively coupled to the printing device, and printing the retrieved one or more documents from the printing module, without invoking an application associated with the one or more documents, or otherwise displaying the one or more documents to the user.
Claims22
A method for printing one or more documents, operatively coupled to a printing device, the method comprising:
- displaying a web page on a video display for the user, the web page including an icon, which when selected by the user, provides an indication to retrieve and print the one or more other documents without redirecting the browser or otherwise displaying the one or more other documents;
- receiving an indication from a user to retrieve and print the one or more documents without first displaying the one or more documents;
- issuing a request to retrieve the one or more documents from an associated one or more providers;
- receiving content of the one or more documents from the associated one or more providers into a printing module;
- printing the retrieved one or more documents from the printing module, without invoking an application associated with the one or more documents, or otherwise displaying the one or more documents to the user;
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- identifying one or more advertisements for presentation to the user;
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- printing one or more advertisements with the one or more retrieved documents.
An apparatus comprising:
- an automated print function, to generate and issue a request to an operatively coupled provider to download one or more requested documents to local memory, to interpret documents stored within local memory, and to print the documents on a coupled printing device from local memory;
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- a controller, coupled to the automated print function and responsive to a user indication received from a user interface, to selectively invoke an instance of the automated print function and prints a requested document, without requiring any additional input from the user and without first displaying the requested document to the user, wherein
- the apparatus resides within a user's computer system and the user interface is a web page provided by a provider, the web page including an iconic selector which, when selected by a user, provides the controller with the user indication to invoke the automated print function, wherein
- the indication provided by the user interface includes name/identifier and location information for one or more identified documents associated with the iconic selector wherein
- the controller provides the automated print function with the name/identifier and location information to generate and issue a request to download the identified documents, wherein
- the automated print function formats the download request based, at least in part, on the identified location of the request documents, wherein
- the requested documents are downloaded into the local memory, and wherein the controller requests one or more advertisements from one or more providers associated with the requested documents to be printed with the requested documents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.