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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2003
Christopher D. Payne, Seattle, WA (US);
Oliver Hurst-hiller, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Watson, Redmond, WA (US);
Brett D. Brewer, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher D. Payne, Seattle, WA (US);
Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Watson, Redmond, WA (US);
Brett D. Brewer, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
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.