Printing a well-defined subset of an HTML page

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2005-12-27

2005-12-27

Hong, Stephen (Department: 2178)

Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i

Presentation processing of document

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Reexamination Certificate

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06981213

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method and system for selectively printing a desired portion of a web page. In one embodiment of the method, the steps typically include passing a named tag element for the desired portion into the desired portion of the web page, querying the named tag element for an inner Hyper-Text Markup Language block for the desired portion, opening a browser window, creating a stream of text for the desired portion and sending the stream of text to the browser, and activating printing, by the browser, of the stream of text. By sending the stream of text to a separate browser window for printing using, for example, JavaScript® or another suitable scripting language, installation of plug-ins, executables or ActiveX® controls is avoided, increasing the efficiency of the printing process.

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