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Document server for processing a distribution job in a document processing system

  • US 5,689,625 A
  • Filed: 11/28/1995
  • Issued: 11/18/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A document server, including a client, for processing a distribution job in a document processing system, the document server being disposed on a network serving a plurality of network users, the distribution job including an image data set as well as a first job ticket and a second job ticket, the first and second job tickets including first and second sets of attributes, selected ones of the attributes of the first and second attribute sets being corresponded with client programmed values with each client programmed value describing a manner in which first and second copies of the image data set are to be stored in or processed by the document processing system, wherein at least one attribute in each of the first and second attribute sets is not provided with a client programmed value, the document processing system including a first virtual service for storing or processing a first copy of the image data set in accordance with the first attribute set and a second virtual service for storing or processing a second copy of the image data set in accordance with the second attribute set, comprising:

  • a document manager, communicating with the first and second virtual services, for coordinating the storing or processing of the first and second job copies in the first and second virtual services;

    a distribution agent, communicating with said document manager, for receiving the first and second job tickets of the distribution job as a single package, said distribution agent transmitting a copy of the first job ticket of the single package to said document manager so that said document manager facilitates routing of both the first copy of the image data set and the copy of the first job ticket to the first virtual service, and said distribution agent transmitting a copy of the second job ticket of the single package to said document manager so that said document manager facilitates routing of both the second copy of the image data set and the copy of the second job ticket to the second virtual service;

    a database, communicating with said distribution agent, for storing a plurality of user profiles with each user profile including a network attribute set for each of the network users, each attribute in each network user attribute set having a corresponding value indicating one of the network user'"'"'s preferences with respect to a manner in which a set of image data is to be stored or processed by the document processing system; and

    prior to transmitting the first and second job tickets copies from said distribution agent to said document manager, said distribution agent automatically designating, by reference to the database, a value to be provided for those attributes lacking a client programmed value.

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