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US 9,753,675 B2Granted
Providing promotional content for printers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorAnshuman Parida
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for providing promotional content to be printed on a media. The method is performed by a server in a network. A printer is registered and one or more promotional settings are configured for the registered printer. A print request is received from a client device. In response to the receiving the print request, one or more promotional content items are retrieved based on the print request and the one or more promotional settings for the registered printer.
Claims18
A method for providing promotional content to be printed in connection with a cloud print service, the method being performed by one or more servers and comprising:
- registering a printer with the cloud print service, the registered printer being operated by a print service provider;
- receiving, from the registered printer over one or more networks, data indicating one or more promotional settings for the registered printer, wherein the print service provider configures the one or more promotional settings on a user interface generated on a display screen of the registered printer, and wherein the one or more promotional settings are usable by the cloud print service to define conditions that enable promotional content items that advertise or market a product or service to be printed with the print content when the conditions are satisfied by a print request;
- receiving, over the one or more networks, a print request from a client device of a user of the cloud print service, the print request identifying (i) the client device, (ii) print content to be printed, and (iii) the registered printer;
- and
- based on the print request and the one or more promotional settings, selecting one or more promotional content items to be printed with the print content,
- wherein the one or more promotional settings include a promotional content identifier, a promotional content validation, a customer status level, and a page count.
3 more elements
A cloud printing server coupled to a network and comprising:
- a network interface;
- a memory storing instructions for a cloud print service;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the network interface and the memory, to execute the instructions, the executed instructions causing the server to:
- register a printer with the cloud print service, the registered printer being operated by a print service provider;
- receive, from the registered printer over one or more networks, data indicating one or more promotional settings for the registered printer, wherein the print service provider configures the one or more promotional settings on a user interface generated on a display screen of the registered printer, and wherein the one or more promotional settings are usable by the server to define conditions that enable promotional content items that advertise or market a product or service to be printed with the print content when the conditions are satisfied by a print request;
- receive, over the one or more networks, a print request from a client device of a user of the cloud print service, the print request identifying (i) the client device, (ii) print content to be printed, and (iii) the registered printer;
- and
- based on the print request and the one or more promotional settings, select one or more promotional content items to be printed with the print content,
- wherein the one or more promotional settings include a promotional content identifier, a promotional content validation, a customer status level, and a page count.
7 more elements
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a server, cause the server to:
- register a printer with a cloud print service, the registered printer being operated by a print service provider;
- receive, from the registered printer over one or more networks, one or more promotional settings for the registered printer, wherein the print service provider configures the one or more promotional settings on a user interface generated on a display screen of the registered printer and wherein the one or more promotional settings are usable by the cloud print service to define conditions that enable promotional content items that advertise or market a product or service to be printed with the print content when the conditions are satisfied by a print request;
- receive a print request from a client device of a user of the cloud print service, the print request identifying (i) the client device, (ii) print content to be printed, and (iii) the registered printer;
- and
- based on the print request and the one or more promotional settings, select one or more promotional content items to be printed with the print content,
- wherein the one or more promotional settings includes a promotional content identifier, a promotional content validation, a customer status level, and a page count.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.