Patent ID: 8599408
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for publishing content to social network sites from application program, comprising: configuring a print driver to connect to a web site; and enabling the print driver to transform data and send the data to the web site for publishing on a social network site directly from the application program, wherein the print driver is an operating system print driver for outputting data to a printer supported by the operating system, and wherein the printer driver is invoked automatically in response to receiving a print command, and wherein the print driver comprises specialized publishing driver specific to the social network site specifying user name, password, one or more commands specific to the social network site, the data being transformed based on the social network site's formatting specification, wherein in response to determining that the social network site is a blog site, only text content is extracted automatically from the application program for publishing to the site.