KR20080000456A - Image forming system providing filtering rss and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An image forming system for supporting and filtering RSS(Really Simple Syndication), and a method thereof are provided to extract and output the contents satisfying a condition by analyzing a node of the RSS homepage from a schema of a received RSS homepage and receiving the condition for the extracted node. A host PC(100) extracts/displays the node of the RSS homepage and receives the condition for filtering the node. A printer(200) receives an address and the filtering condition of the RSS homepage from the host PC, and extracts/selectively output the contents satisfying the filtering contents among the contents of the RSS homepage. The host PC includes an RSS parser(110) extracting the node from the RSS homepage, a user interface(120) displaying items of the extracted node and receiving the condition for searching the node from a user, and a filtering condition storing module(130) storing/transmitting the filtering condition to the printer. The printer includes the filtering module extracting the contents satisfying the filtering condition by connecting to the RSS homepage, a display module displaying the item of the extracted contents, and a printing module printing the contents selected among the displayed contents.

Description

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1 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of an image forming system host PC according to the present invention;

3 is an exemplary view showing a user interface screen in which a host PC receives a filtering condition.

4 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of an image forming system printer according to the present invention;

5 is an exemplary view showing an operation screen of the printer according to the present invention.

6 is a flowchart showing an image forming method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

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100: host PC 200: printer

110: RSS parser 210: memory module

120: user interface 220: filtering module

130: filtering condition storage module 250: output module

260: automatic output control module

The present invention relates to an image forming system and a method for supporting RSS capable of filtering.

The lexical meaning of RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, a standard XML-based communication format. Wikipedia understands RSS as a "protocol."

The web address we currently use consists of "http: //www.../xxx.htm". This can be understood as sending html file by http transmission method. In this case, RSS corresponds to http and xml corresponds to html. In other words, RSS is a method of sending data, and xml is a method of implementing the data.

RSS is a standard that allows this implementation to summarize, share, and exchange various content. Content (or feeds) can be delivered via a content syndication format, represented by RSS, and each feed, consisting of the content itself and metadata, can contain only headline content, or only a link to a story. The full content of may be included.

Until now, Internet users have been surfing to access information, but generally, if they like a site, surfing the site finds and uses the information or saves it in a bookmark. This way, I couldn't tell if the site was updated or new posts had not been made in person. However, if you use RSS, you can easily check if the site is updated by using a program such as RSS Reader (= Aggregator) without visiting.

Recently, many web sites support RSS, so it is possible to check various information of different sites at the same time. However, there is a great deal of information in RSS that users do not want. The user is forced to see the content that is not desired, so it is difficult to recognize the desired information at a glance, and even there is a case in which the desired information cannot be retrieved accurately.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the problem according to the prior art, by analyzing the schema of the received RSS home page, extract the node of the home page, and receives the condition for the extracted node to satisfy the condition An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming system and method for extracting and outputting only content to be used.

An image forming system according to an aspect of the present invention extracts and displays a node of an RSS homepage, receives a host PC that receives a filtering condition for the node, and receives an address and filtering condition of the RSS homepage from the host PC. It may include a printer for extracting only the content satisfying the filtering condition from the content of the RSS homepage and selectively output.

In this case, the host PC displays an RSS parser for extracting a node from an RSS homepage, an item of a node extracted by the RSS parser, a user interface for receiving a search condition for the node from a user, and stores the filtering condition, It may include a filtering module for transmitting this to the printer.

In addition, the printer is connected to the RSS homepage through the network, the filtering module for extracting only the content that satisfies the filtering condition, the display module for displaying the item of the content extracted by the filtering module, and the user of the content displayed by the display module It may include an output module for printing the selected content.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image forming method using an image forming system. The image forming system analyzes a schema of an input RSS home page and displays a node of a home page registered in the RSS. Receiving a condition for the input, and extracting only the content that satisfies the condition from the RSS homepage may include the step of outputting.

In this case, the image forming method may further include periodically checking whether a new search result exists for each RSS and outputting a new search result.

Hereinafter, an image forming system and a method for supporting RSS according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the same components in the drawings are represented by the same reference numerals and symbols as much as possible even though they are shown in different drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the image forming system 10 may include a host PC 100 and a printer 200. Of course, the printer basically outputs the printed matter by the output command of the host PC 100. This output corresponds to a known technique.

In the present invention, the host PC 100 receives an RSS homepage address and a filtering condition that the user wants to search, and delivers it to the printer 200. Meanwhile, the printer 200 receiving the address and the filtering condition extracts only content satisfying the filtering condition by accessing the homepage address. Thereafter, the printer 200 displays the extracted content to the user and performs a function of outputting only the content desired by the user.

2 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of an image forming system host PC according to the present invention.

In this case, the host PC 100 may include an RSS parser 110, a filtering condition storage module 130, and a user interface 120. The RSS parser 110 is responsible for extracting nodes from the RSS homepage set by the user. The filtering condition storing module 130 stores the filtering condition when the user inputs the filtering condition with respect to the node extracted from the predetermined RSS homepage, and transmits the filtering condition to the printer 200. Finally, the user interface 120 is a kind of interface that displays the item of the node extracted by the RSS parser 110 and receives a search condition for the node from the user.

3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a user interface screen through which a host PC receives a filtering condition.

In FIG. 3, an RSS Feed item is an item for inputting an RSS homepage which a user periodically searches for. The RSS parser 110 of the host PC 100 analyzes the node of the homepage address input by the user to generate an item. You can see that the current user has set up the RSS homepage at http://news.naver.com.

The RSS parser 110 analyzes the nodes of the http://news.naver.com homepage to generate and output an item. In FIG. 3, it is analyzed that items such as Title, Link, Date, Creator, Subject, and Description exist on the http://news.naver.com homepage, and the RSS parser 110 outputs them to the user interface 120. It is. The user interface 120 now receives a filtering condition for the generated item, which is transmitted to the filtering condition storage module 130 and stored, while being transmitted to the printer 200.

4 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of the image forming system printer according to the present invention.

The printer 200 may include a memory module 210, a filtering module 220, a display module 230, an output module 250, an automatic output control module 260, and a key button 240.

The memory module 210 is an element that stores RSS lists and filtering conditions of each RSS. Such lists and conditions are preferably stored in the form of a database.

The filtering module 220 performs a function of acquiring only materials satisfying the filtering condition among posts or contents of each RSS homepage. The printer 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention is premised on being connected to a host PC 100 and a network, and the filtering module 220 accesses an RSS homepage through a network to satisfy the filtering condition. It only extracts content.

The display module 230 generally performs a function of outputting a state and an operation state of the printer 200. However, the display module 230 according to the present invention also performs a function of displaying information of content searched by the filtering module 220. Such a display unit 230 may be generally implemented as an LCD or the like. In addition, the printer 200 may include a key button 240 so that the user can select the content to be output from the displayed content.

The output module 250 prints the content selected by the user using a key button. The automatic output control module 260 periodically retrieves the RSS through the filtering module 220 and, if there is a new post that meets the filtering condition, outputs the component 250 to output it. However, the automatic output control module 260 corresponds to an additional component in which activation is determined according to a user's selection.

5 is an exemplary view showing an operation screen of a printer according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 illustrates an operation of the printer 200 when a filtering condition of “Samsung Electronics” is received from the host PC 100 as described with reference to FIG. 3.

The filtering module 220 of the printer 200 receives an address of http://news.naver.com which is a search target homepage and "Samsung Electronics" which is a filtering condition from the host PC 100. Of course, such an address and filtering condition are stored in the memory module 210.

On the other hand, the filtering module 220 searches for only the content that contains "Samsung Electronics" in the title item of the content of http://news.naver.com using the address and the condition received from the host PC 100, The item is output to the display module 230. In FIG. 5, an item of the retrieved four contents may be examined.

Now, the user selects the content to be output using the key button 240. In Figure 5, the user has selected the content of "Samsung Electronics, management rights to buy back stock?", The output module 250 of the printer 200 is to print the content.

6 is a flowchart illustrating an image forming method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, the image forming system receives an RSS address registration from a user (S601). When receiving the RSS address registration as described above, it may be input whether to use the filtering condition.

The image forming system determines whether to receive the filtering condition together with the RSS address registration (S602). If the filtering function is not used, all content items of the connected homepage are output according to the conventional RSS method (S612). However, if the filtering function is used together with the RSS address registration, the image forming system analyzes the schema of the RSS homepage in order to receive the filtering condition (S603). Such schema analysis refers to an operation of extracting a field for receiving a filtering condition by extracting a node of a home page registered in an RSS. For example, the image forming system extracts items such as Title, Link, Date, Creator, Subject, Description, etc. by extracting and analyzing the nodes of the RSS homepage.

The image forming system outputs the node extracted in step S603 to the user (S604), and receives the filtering condition thereof (S605). The image forming system extracts only content that satisfies the input conditions as described above (S606). In addition, the image forming system displays the extracted content item on the display unit (S607). In addition, the image forming system receives a content that a user wants to output through a key button or a touch pad (S608), and prints the content on paper (S609).

Meanwhile, the image forming system may include an automatic update performing function. When the automatic update function is activated (S610), the image forming system periodically checks whether a new search result exists for each RSS (S611). If there is a new search result, the process proceeds to S607 and the image forming system displays it on the display unit and outputs it according to the user's selection.

The preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above. The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made by anyone having ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains.

For example, in the present invention, an image forming system divided into a host PC and a printer has been described as an example. However, using the present embodiment, it is also possible to consider a configuration such that one image forming apparatus can perform all functions without being divided into a host PC and a printer.

In addition, in the present invention, the output using the printer has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to the printer, and any device that outputs to a medium such as paper or film will fall within the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to an image forming system and method for supporting RSS according to the present invention, by selecting a filtering condition for a specific RSS, and later displaying and outputting only the RSS post processed by the printer to the user The effect is that the user can more conveniently search for RSS posts.

Claims (5)

In the image forming system, A host PC extracting and displaying a node of an RSS homepage and receiving a filtering condition for the node; And a printer for receiving the address and filtering condition of the RSS homepage from the host PC, and extracting and selectively outputting only content satisfying the filtering condition among the contents of the RSS homepage. The method of claim 1, The host PC, An RSS parser for extracting nodes from an RSS homepage; A user interface for displaying an item of a node extracted by the RSS parser and receiving a search condition for the node from a user; And And a filtering module for storing the filtering condition and transmitting the filtering condition to the printer. The method of claim 1, The printer, A filtering module accessing an RSS homepage through a network and extracting only content satisfying the filtering condition; A display module configured to display an item of content extracted by the filtering module; And And an output module for printing a content selected by a user among contents displayed by the display module. In the image forming method using the image forming system, The image forming system analyzes the schema of the received RSS homepage and displays the nodes of the homepage registered in the RSS; Wow The image forming system includes receiving a condition for the node, and extracting and outputting only content satisfying the condition from the RSS homepage. The method of claim 4, wherein The image forming system further includes periodically checking whether a new search result exists for each RSS, and outputting the new search result.

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