Smartly formatted print in toolbar
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsChristopher D. Payne, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Eric Watson, Brett D. Brewer
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsChristopher D. Payne, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Eric Watson, Brett D. Brewer
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The subject invention provides for systems and methods that allow a web user to more easily and readily print what they actually want to print and at the same time, mitigates user frustration that often ensues from poor web page printing. More specifically, the subject invention involves deciphering a structure or layout of any web page on the Internet. When a user employs the present print feature, the invention can be invoked to analyze the structure of a current web page to automatically generate a print preview page of the current web page. After analyzing the current web page, extraneous content of the page that is deemed to be non-critical or non-essential to that web page can be removed for printing purposes. Furthermore, previous knowledge learned regarding web page structure can be applied to determine the page and/or content structure of the current page to facilitate generating the print preview page.
A system that facilitates online printing for a web user comprising:
A system that facilitates providing a preview version of a printable page comprising:
A method that determines web page architecture and facilitates identifying content on a web page to obtain a smartly formatted print version of a desired portion(s) of any web pages, comprising:
A method that facilitates printing one or more web pages comprising:
A computer implemented system that generates a print preview page of a web page comprising:
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon the following computer executable components for generating a smartly formatted print preview version of a web page:
A system that facilitates printing from a web page comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.