1997-06-16
1999-11-30
Coles, Edward L.
395115, 395112, G06F 1500
Patent
active
059957212
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a document processing system including at least one document reproduction apparatus and managing on-demand output of a document job. The document job is characterized by a set of job attributes with each job attribute relating to a manner in which the document job is to be processed by the document processing system. The document processing system, which further includes a document server for managing conversion of the document job into the on-demand output, includes: a plurality of queues mapped to a plurality of document processing subsystems, each of the plurality of queues including a set of queue attributes characterizing the extent to which each document processing subsystem mapped to one or more of the plurality of queues is capable of processing a job portion delivered to the one or more queues. The document processing system further includes a queue utility communicating with the plurality of queues. The queue utility compares the set of job attributes and each set of queue attributes to generate a set of information corresponding the set of job attributes with those queues, among the plurality of queues, that are capable of completely processing at least a portion of the document job. In practice, at least a portion of the document job is corresponded with one of the plurality of queues based on the set of information generated by the queue utility.
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Graham Steven A.
Rourke John L.
Cohen Gary B.
Coles Edward L.
Popovici Dov
Xerox Corporation
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