DOCUMENT POOLING MECHANISM
First Claim
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive a plurality of print jobs, each including a plurality of documents to be printed;
receive job tickets including a description as to how pages in the plurality of documents are to be printed;
store the plurality of documents in a document pool;
store a document property record associated with each of the plurality of documents in the document pool; and
process the job tickets and the document property records to generate a combined print job including two or more of the plurality of the documents, including;
extracting document pages from the pool; and
analyzing the property record associated with each of the extracted document pages to determine the documents that are to be combined.
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Abstract
A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store print workflow manager and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory devices to execute the print workflow manager receive a plurality of print jobs, each including a plurality of documents to be printed, receive job tickets including a description as to how pages in the plurality of documents are to be printed, store the plurality of documents in a document pool, store a document property record associated with each of the plurality of documents in the document pool, wherein a document property record provides and process the job tickets and the document property records to generate a combined print job including two or more of the plurality of the documents.
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22 Claims
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
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receive a plurality of print jobs, each including a plurality of documents to be printed; receive job tickets including a description as to how pages in the plurality of documents are to be printed; store the plurality of documents in a document pool; store a document property record associated with each of the plurality of documents in the document pool; and process the job tickets and the document property records to generate a combined print job including two or more of the plurality of the documents, including; extracting document pages from the pool; and analyzing the property record associated with each of the extracted document pages to determine the documents that are to be combined. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system comprising:
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at least one physical memory device to store a print workflow manager; and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the print workflow manager to receive a plurality of print jobs, each including a plurality of documents to be printed, receive job tickets including a description as to how pages in the plurality of documents are to be printed, store the plurality of documents in a document pool, store a document property record associated with each of the plurality of documents in the document pool, and process the job tickets and the document property records to generate a combined print job including two or more of the plurality of the documents, including extracting document pages from the pool and analyzing the property record associated with each of the extracted document pages to determine the documents that are to be combined. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for processing print documents, comprising:
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identifying a first group of documents to be printed; identifying a second group of documents from the first group of documents to be printed, wherein each of the documents within the second group of documents has a first predetermined characteristic; determining a predetermined print aspect for the second group of documents by evaluating a first job ticket for the first group of documents; and creating a second job ticket for the second group of documents such that when evaluating the second group of documents and the second job ticket separately from the first group of documents and the first job ticket, the second job ticket redefines the association of a predetermined print aspect from the first job ticket to at least one new page number of one of the print documents from the second group of documents, thereby maintaining the predetermined print aspect for the pages of the second group of documents as originally defined by the first job ticket. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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