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Method and device for sequencing print jobs

  • US 9,898,232 B2
  • Filed: 04/20/2016
  • Issued: 02/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for administration of print jobs to be printed at one or more printing systems, the method being executed by a print job administrator, wherein the method comprises:

  • analyzing one or more manual assignments of print jobs into job groups, the manual assignments being based on respective one or more print features associated with the job groups, wherein a print job of the print jobs indicates a specification of the one or more print features, wherein different specifications of a print feature of the one or more print features may require different configurations of one of the one or more printing systems;

    generating a respective training data set for each of the analyzed manual assignments based on the analysis of the manual assignments, each of the training data sets including an association of the one or more print features with a respective one of the job groups;

    analyzing the training data sets to determine machine-learned patterns of the manual assignments;

    determining an assignment function based on the determined patterns, the assignment function being configured to assign a combination of specifications of the one or more print features of a print job to one of the job groups;

    assigning, using the assignment function, a first print job with a respective one of the job groups; and

    inducing the first print job to be printed by a first printing system of the one or more printing systems depending on the assigned job group.

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