Patent ID: 7697152

Claim:
A print content transmission device that transmits print content to a print device, the print content transmission device comprising: a content procurement unit configured for at least one of obtaining print content and generating the print content, the print content being described using a predetermined markup language; a feature identification unit operable to identify a feature of the print content; an addition unit operable to describe the identified feature as a definition statement that includes a uniquely defined tag that can be handled in the markup language and that indicates whether thumbnail image data should be printed with the print content, and to add the definition statement to the print content; and a transmission unit operable to transmit the print content including the added definition statement to the print device, wherein said feature identification unit is operable to judge whether or not the print content is content for which thumbnail image data should be used when the print content is printed, wherein, when said feature identification unit judges that the print content is content for which the thumbnail image data should be used, said addition unit is operable to add, to the print content, the definition statement to indicate that the thumbnail image data should be used, wherein said addition unit is operable to add, to the print content, the definition statement indicating that the thumbnail image data should be used, the definition statement being added to the print content using the uniquely defined tag and a uniquely defined definition statement in which the uniquely defined tag is used, the uniquely defined tag and the uniquely defined definition statement together forming the definition statement and being in conformance with a specification of a same markup language as the markup language used to describe the print content, and wherein the definition statement, which is added to the print content by said addition unit and indicates that the thumbnail image data should be used, is ignored by another print device because the definition statement, which is added to the print content by said addition unit and indicates that the thumbnail image data should be used, cannot be interpreted by the another print device.