Centralized production management for measuring mail industry processing performance
First Claim
1. A method of providing a performance metric for document processing operations, comprising steps of:
- obtaining data pertaining to operations of one or more resources within each of a plurality of document processing environments, at least two of the document processing environments being operated by different entities;
populating the data pertaining to the operations of the resources within the document processing environments into a database; and
processing data from the database in accordance with a reporting criteria to generate at least one anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within the at least two document processing environments.
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Abstract
In the disclosed example, an Intelligence Management System (IMS) collects data pertaining to operations of resources of various document processing environments operated by different entities into a database. The IMS processes data from the database according to criteria, to generate at least one anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within a number of the document processing environments. The anonymous metric may be presented to a user, such as personnel of one of the operating entities. If the user has sufficient access privileges, the IMS may also generate a similar client specific metric from data for one or more environments with which the user is associated, for example, to allow benchmark comparison of the operational performance of the associated environment(s) against the anonymous performance metric.
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25 Claims
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1. A method of providing a performance metric for document processing operations, comprising steps of:
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obtaining data pertaining to operations of one or more resources within each of a plurality of document processing environments, at least two of the document processing environments being operated by different entities; populating the data pertaining to the operations of the resources within the document processing environments into a database; and processing data from the database in accordance with a reporting criteria to generate at least one anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within the at least two document processing environments. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A product comprising a machine readable medium and programming instructions embodied in the medium, wherein execution of the instructions by a programmable device causes the device to perform operations comprising:
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obtaining data pertaining to operations of one or more resources within each of a plurality of document processing environments, at least two of the document processing environments being operated by different entities; populating the data pertaining to the operations of the resources within the document processing environments into a database; and processing data from the database in accordance with a reporting criteria to generate at least one anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within two or more of the document processing environments. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of providing a user with a performance metric for document processing operations, comprising steps of:
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receiving from the user a request for document processing performance metric information; processing data from a database of data pertaining to operations of one or more resources within each of a plurality of document processing environments in accordance with a reporting criteria so as to generate at least one anonymous performance metric, corresponding to the requested information, the anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within two or more of a plurality of the document processing environments, wherein at least two of the document processing environments of the plurality are operated by different entities; and presenting the anonymous performance metric to the user. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A product comprising a machine readable medium and programming instructions embodied in the medium, wherein execution of the instructions by a programmable device causes the device to perform operations comprising:
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receiving from the user a request for document processing performance metric information; processing data from a database of data pertaining to operations of one or more resources within each of a plurality of document processing environments in accordance with a reporting criteria so as to generate at least one anonymous performance metric, corresponding to the requested information, the anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within two or more of a plurality of the document processing environments, wherein at least two of the document processing environments of the plurality are operated by different entities; and presenting the anonymous performance metric to the user.
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23. A method of presenting data to a user upon request, the data pertaining to operations of one or more resources within each of a plurality of document processing environments as stored to a database, the database being accessible by the plurality of document processing environments and the user in accordance with access privilege, at least two of the document processing environments being operated by different entities, the method comprising the steps of:
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processing data from the database in accordance with a reporting criteria associated with the user request to generate at least one anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within two or more of the document processing environments; processing client specific data from the database in accordance with the reporting criteria to generate at least one client specific performance metric representing operational performance of one or more resources within an identified document processing environment; and presenting the at least one anonymous performance metric and the at least one client specific performance metric to the user. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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