Patent ID: 9052864
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, in a printer, a request for a page description language (PDL) document stored in a data store of the printer, wherein the PDL document describes a page of content to be printed by the printer; retrieving, from the data store of the printer, the PDL document, wherein the PDL document is encoded in accordance with a lightweight data interchange format that includes (i) the content of the page, and (ii) an arrangement of the content within the page, wherein the lightweight data-interchange format is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON); and interpreting, in the printer, JSON content of the PDL document according to a JSON format to generate a rasterized document that defines a layout of the page to be printed, wherein the layout of the page as defined by the rasterized document is consistent with the arrangement of the content within the page as specified by the PDL document encoded with the lightweight data interchange format.