Data transfer system, method of transferring data, and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9727287-B2
Application number	US-201314782760-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 10, 2013
Priority date	Apr 10, 2013
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A data transfer system includes a virtual printer driver to receive a report from a first system, the report in the form of a print job, and to generate an electronic document representative of the report; and an extraction module to extract a parameter from the electronic document, format the parameter in a first format, and provide the parameter in the first format to a second system.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that when executed cause a processor to:
receive a visual representation of a report describing a print job from a virtual printer driver, wherein the virtual printer driver is to receive the report describing the print job from a first system and to generate an electronic document that provides the visual representation of the report;
identify format information in the visual representation of the report;
use the format information to identify a heading in the visual representation of the report and a keyword in the heading in the visual representation of the report;
use the identified keyword as an anchor to determine boundaries of a region in the visual representation of the report;
extract a parameter from the region;
format the parameter in a first format; and
provide the parameter in the first format to a second system.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the visual representation of the report is a portable document format (PDF) file.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to identify location information in the visual representation of the report.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the report, when printed, is to include a textual description of the parameter.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the first system is a print service provider, the report describes a print production job, and the second system is a production manager.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the report is a job ticket.

7. A system comprising:
a processing device;
a virtual printer driver to receive a report describing a print job from a print service provider, and to generate an electronic document that provides a visual representation of the report;
an extraction module including instructions that when executed cause the processing device to identify format information in the visual representation of the report, use the format information to identify a heading in the visual representation of the report and a keyword in the heading in the visual representation of the report, use the identified keyword as an anchor to determine boundaries of a region in the visual representation of the report, extract a parameter from the region, and format the parameter in a first format; and
a production manager to receive the parameter in the first format from the extraction module.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the visual representation of the report is a portable document format (PDF) file.

9. A method of transferring data, the method comprising:
receiving, at a virtual printer driver, a report describing a print job from a first system;
generating, by the virtual printer driver, an electronic document that provides a visual representation of the report;
identifying format information in the visual representation of the report;
using the format information to identify a heading in the visual representation of the report and a keyword in the heading in the visual representation of the report;
using the identified keyword as an anchor to determine boundaries of a region in the visual representation of the report;
extracting a parameter from the region;
formatting the parameter in a first format; and
providing the parameter in the first format to a second system.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the visual representation of the report is a portable document format (PDF) file.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the report, when printed, is to include a textual description of the parameter.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first system is a print service provider, the report describes a print production job, and the second system is a production manager.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Indigo Bv
• Hewlett Packard Indigo Bv

Inventors

• Amir Gideon
• Shaham Noam
• Krasnovsky Lior
• Alon Gershon

Classifications

• G06F3/1206 Primary

  resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type · CPC title

• G06F3/1244

  Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding · CPC title

• G06F3/1285

  Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server · CPC title

• G06F3/1276 Primary

  within a printer driver, e.g. driver resides either on a server or on a client · CPC title

• G06F3/1275

  Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing · CPC title