Job scheduling system for print processing

• US 6,213,652 B1
• Filed: 10/17/1995
• Issued: 04/10/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Akihiro, Yamada, Kentaro, Nishiyama, Koji, Nakamura, Yoh, Nakatani, Tooru
• Primary Examiner(s): Coles, Edward L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Cheukfan
• Application Number:
  US08/544,076
• Time in Patent Office: 2,002 Days
• Field of Search: 395/114, 395/101, 395/113, 395/112, 395/115, 358/437, 358/296, 358/468, 358/401, 358/444, 358/404, 358/442, 399/361, 379/100.01, 364/242.2
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/126 Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.

Claims

1. A job processing device which sequentially executes jobs for which processing requests were accepted, said job processing device comprising:

first queuing means for sequentially storing jobs for which processing requests were accepted;

second queuing means for sequentially storing jobs whose processing is to be interrupted from among the jobs stored in said first queuing means;

queue control means which moves the job stored in the first queuing means from said first queuing means to said second queuing means in response to a job processing interruption request and moves a job stored in said second queuing means from said second queuing means to said first queuing means in response to a job resumption request, said job processing interruption request and said job resumption request being included in the processing request for a corresponding job; and

job execution means for sequentially executing the jobs stored in said first queuing means.

2. The job processing device as defined in claim 1, further comprising job state control means which manages interruption information, representing an interrupted state of a job, as attribute information of the job when the job being executed by said job execution means is interrupted in response to the job processing interruption request, wherein the execution of the job is resumed with reference to the interruption information in response to the job resumption request.