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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Mohit Anand, New Delhi, IN;

Abhas Sinha, Hyderabad, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06F 3/1203 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method may include receiving a request from a software application to print an electronic document; in response to the request, parsing the electronic document; based on the parsing, detecting a text element in a portion of the electronic document that is associated in a structure of the electronic document with a network link, the network link being different than the text element; modifying the portion of the electronic document with the text element to include a printable element encoded with the network link; and transmitting the electronic document as modified to a printer driver.


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