US Patent:
20070016857, Jan 18, 2007
Inventors:
Kenneth Polleck - Raleigh NC, US
Varadarajan Ramamoorthy - Cary NC, US
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 17/00
G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00
US Classification:
715530000, 715764000, 709203000
Abstract:
A system for printing data in a portlet. A portal server receives a request for a portal page from a requestor. In response to receiving the request for the portal page, the portal server retrieves the portal page, which includes a set of portlets. Subsequent to retrieving the portal page, the portal server renders an appearance that includes a print control for each portlet in the set of portlets. The print control is used to control a print functionality when the print control is manipulated by a user input. The print functionality is inserted into the retrieved portal page by the portal server to form a modified portal page. After the portal server modifies the portal page by rendering an appearance and inserting a print functionality, the portal server sends the modified portal page to the requestor.
