Cloud Printing System for Online Resource Layout and Ad Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
When printing online resources to paper, the presentation format often results in images being split across pages, portions of the resource being occluded by advertisements, or requiring excessive pages, making it difficult to read or view the content effectively.
Innovation Solution
A cloud printing system that selects a print format and advertisements based on characteristics such as page layout, advertisement placement, and estimated revenue, ensuring the content fits within paper dimensions and is formatted to minimize errors like occlusion and excessive page usage, and includes features like QR codes for interactive elements and coupons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the presentation format is used for printing, then the online resource is printed as displayed, but images are split across pages and portions are occluded by advertisements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the advertisement content from the main resource by detecting advertisement regions and separating them into distinct advertisement pages. This allows the main resource to be printed without occlusion or splitting, while advertisements are handled separately on dedicated pages, resolving the contradiction between maintaining presentation format and preventing content loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts advertisements from the main resource content by identifying advertisement regions and removing them from the primary document flow. The extracted advertisements are then placed on separate pages, ensuring the main resource prints cleanly without occlusion or page splitting, thus improving both manufacturing precision and information completeness.
2Manufacturing precision
If the presentation format is used for printing, then the resource is printed as displayed, but excessive pages are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments advertisements from the main resource and places them on separate pages. This segmentation allows the main resource to be printed on fewer pages without advertisements, reducing the total page count while maintaining print format compliance and content integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
By extracting advertisements from the main resource and printing them separately, the patent reduces the number of pages required for the main resource. This extraction approach maintains manufacturing precision for the resource while minimizing the quantity of pages needed overall.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If advertisements are included in the print-out, then advertising revenue is generated, but the resource content is occluded and readability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the print-out into distinct sections: the main resource content on one or more pages and advertisements on separate pages. This segmentation eliminates occlusion of resource content by advertisements while maintaining both elements in the final print-out, thus resolving the contradiction between generating ad revenue and preserving content visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts advertisements from the main resource content and places them on separate pages. This extraction prevents advertisement occlusion of resource content while still including both elements in the final print-out, thereby maintaining resource content visibility and enabling advertising revenue generation without compromising readability.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for printing online resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to print an online resource that is presented at a user device according to a presentation format in which a first advertisement is presented at a first presentation position. A print format for a print-out of the online resource is selected. The print format specifies a second advertisement position at which a second advertisement is included in the print-out of the online resource. The second advertisement is selected based, at least in part, on characteristics of the second advertisement position. The second advertisement can be a different advertisement than the first advertisement. Data that cause the resource and the second advertisement to be printed according to the print format are provided.