Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Apple Inc.

Hewlett-Packard Company

Other

David M Hall

Jay Christopher Capela

Charles J Migos

Markus Hagele

Gary William Gehiere

Yaniv Gur

Jacob Grundtvig Refstrup

Shell Sterling Simpson

Alexander Charles Maclean

Jeff M Anderson

Christopher Erich Rudolph

Roger Rock Rosner

Peter William Rapp

Peter Berger

Jeremy Bunn

Diego Bauducco

Alexander C MacLean

Paul B Elseth

Mark Ambachtsheer

Simon Antony Ward

Steven J Israelson

Sherri L Brown

M Frank Emanuel

Daniel Revel

Mac Murrett

Lainye Reich

Erik D Ness

Martin James Murrett

Darrel D Cherry

Alan Chris Berkema

Kenneth Lee Oakeson

Michael Dean Whitmarsh

Charles J Gazdik

Patrick O Sandfort

David Edward Staas

Patrick E Welborn

David Jeffrey Miller

Stephen D Dentel

Jonathan Newman

Donald J Welch

Bruce Williams

Carmalyn Lubawy

Karen E Misustin

Raghothama S Cauligi

Steve Claus

Peter G Berger

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for digital books. In some implementations, a single graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows an author to design a layout for the digital book, including editing text and inserting various types of interactive elements in the text. The GUI functions as both a digital book layout design tool and a word processor to facilitate the building of a digital book. The relative page location of inserted widgets can be determined by a user-selectable anchor point placed within the text. An outline view of the digital book can be created and presented in the GUI based on a hierarchical structure determined by paragraph styles applied to the text. The GUI can provide a hybrid glossary and index page for allowing the author to create and manage a glossary and index for the digital book.

Authoring content for digital books

A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.

Interactive content for digital books

A system for authoring, publishing, and distribution of electronic documents is provided. The system includes a content authoring and publishing application to author and publish electronic documents, a content distribution system to distribute electronic documents, and a set of user devices that include digital content viewing applications that are used to read the electronic documents. The content authoring and publishing application is used to author and publish high-resolution versions of electronic documents. The high-resolution version of each document is associated with a set of annotations for each high-resolution image in the document. The annotations allow an electronic document thinning tool in the content distribution system to create a low-resolution version of each image and generate a low-resolution version of the electronic document without receiving low-resolution images from the author of the document.

Electronic document thinning

In one embodiment, first content that is common to, or included within, each of a plurality of web applications is identified. The first content is interpreted, without presenting the interpreted first content until after receipt of an instruction to present one of the web applications. An instruction to present a selected one of the web applications is received. Second content of the selected web application is interpreted, the second content comprising content of the selected web application other than the first content. The interpreted first and second content are presented via a presentation device.

Interpreting web application content

A driver for a mobile-computing device. The driver comprises a communication interface for communicatively coupling the driver to an application executing on the mobile-computing device and a print service wirelessly coupled to the mobile-computing apparatus. The driver further comprises an interceptor and a graphics device formatter. The interceptor identifies graphics device commands and forwards graphics device commands issued by the application. The formatter, when enabled, renders information desired to be printed from the mobile-communication device to an intermediate format communicated to the print service.

Computing device and methods for mobile-printing

Example systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, and other forms of a secure foreign enterprise printing system are provided. An example system may include a wireless telephonic logic for communicating with a wireless network web services provider and a wireless network communication logic configured to communicate a print request to the wireless network web services provider using the wireless telephonic logic. The print item may be stored in a first enterprise and may be printed on an image forming device that is located in a second enterprise. The example system may also include an encryption logic configured to facilitate providing security for the print item as it travels from the first enterprise to the image forming device.

Secure foreign enterprise printing

A printing system and method are provided that facilitate the mobile printing of a document. The printing system comprises an automated print agent located in a device coupled to a network. The printing system also comprises a network alias associated with a printer coupled to the network, where the automated print agent acting as a network destination for a transmitted document addressed to the network alias. The automated print agent orchestrates the printing of the transmitted document on the printer upon receipt of the transmitted document from a transmitting device.

System and method for mobile printing

A method for use in printing a print job from an application program on a printer. The printer has associated job settings which include a private portion containing a printer-specific job setting. The method includes providing a program interface configured to enable the application program to access the printer-specific job setting. The method also typically includes, from the application program, sending a command to the program interface to perform an operation related to the printer-specific job setting, and performing the operation related to the printer-specific job setting.

Printing method

A system and method are provided for generating an expression definition file from which a creative expression may be printed. Briefly described, in one embodiment, the system includes a processing server having a processor electrically coupled to a local interface and a memory electrically coupled to the local interface. The processing server is configured to communicate with an affiliate server via a communications network. The system further comprises operating logic stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The operating logic includes logic to receive a logical creative expression that defines the creative expression from the affiliate server. The logical creative expression has one or more content elements and a template type. The operating logic further includes logic to identify a template stored in the memory that is associated with the template type, the template specifying one or more pages with associated regions, and logic to associate the content elements with the regions. Finally, the operating logic includes logic to generate the expression definition file embodying the creative expression, the expression definition file specifying the pages with their associated regions for printing.

System and method for creating and printing a creative expression

A system and method are provided for updating a banner in a graphical display. In embodiment, the system comprises a processor circuit in a client device that includes a processor and a memory, both of which are electrically coupled to a local interface. The local interface may comprise, for example, a data bus and accompanying control bus. Also electrically coupled to the local interface is a network interface such as a network card that couples a network to the local interface. The system includes a display device electrically coupled to the local interface. The system further includes banner update logic stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The banner update logic particularly comprises logic to automatically initiate a download of a remote banner located at a predefined address on the network to the memory, and logic to display a local banner stored in the memory on the display device upon a failure to download the remote banner to the memory. The banner update logic may further comprise logic to display the remote banner on the display device upon a successful download of the remote banner to the memory.

System and method for opportunistic upgrading of an image

A technique for efficiently using media-type identifier code on print media and for processing that code, once read, to select the appropriate print mode for a printer that is to print onto that media. The system of the present invention minimizes the number of bits of data that must be associated with (hence, marked on) a sheet of print media to convey adequately the information as to the type of media, and is inherently backwards compatible. The invention uses simplified encoding and algorithm processing, which, in a preferred embodiment, includes a look-up table for storing known media-type code with associated print modes. A distance algorithm is used for locating the most appropriate print mode for given media-type identifier code that is not found in the table.

Media-type encoding and print mode selection

Described herein is a method of decompressing a compressed data stream from a data buffer. The compressed data stream is of a type having a plurality of compressed segments in a normal sequence, wherein each segment has a control element that specifies the length or number of following data elements. The method includes a step of reading the segments in their normal sequence from the data buffer. After reading a particular segment, its control element and data elements are reversed in order, and then rewritten to the data buffer in the original location of the segment. After reading and re-writing a plurality of the segments, the direction of reading can be reversed. That is, the segments can be read in reverse sequence. Because of the re-writing step, however, control elements will be read before data elements, thus enabling decompression even in the reverse direction.

Bi-directional data stream decompression

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David M Hall