Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Joseph Wayne Stradling

Marquis G Waller

Michael Glen Lotz

Gerald Donald Boldt

Jeffrey Alan Sikkink

Linda Sue Liebelt

Minh Trong Vo

Thomas Nathan Bilan

Tadao Yamasaki

Marcel Stoica

Eric T Staples

Petru Cristian Babuscov

A system to generate perform document optimizations is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to receive a request to securely communicate with a client computing device, including a fingerprint identifier (ID) associated with the client computing device, transmit a fingerprint challenge to the client computing device, wherein the fingerprint challenge comprises a manipulation to be performed on a segment of a fingerprint file associated with the fingerprint ID, receive a challenge response from the client computing device and verify the challenge response.

Fingerprint authentication mechanism

Systems and methods are provided for dynamically splitting print jobs to reduce the time taken to start printing those jobs, allowing those jobs to be printed on a wider range of printers more efficiently. One embodiment includes a print server with an interface that is able to receive a Portable Document Format (PDF) print job. The print server also includes a job controller that divides the PDF print job into segments. Dividing the PDF print job includes determining a segment size comprising a number of the logical pages to include in each segment, based on the memory footprint for the logical pages. Dividing the PDF print job also includes generating multiple segments, populating each of the segments with logical pages from the PDF print job based on the segment size, and populating each of the segments with a page tree. The job controller transmits the segments to a printer.

Dynamic splitting of portable document format print jobs

A system is described. The system includes a memory to store print performance recommendation logic, including a file handler, a printer acquisition module and a recommendation engine, and one or more processors to execute the file handler to receive print data, printer acquisition module to receive printer configuration information including performance data for each of a plurality of printers and the recommendation engine to generate a printer recommendation including one or more of the plurality of printers based on the print data and the printer configuration information.

Printer model recommendation mechanism

A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store application integration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to execute the application integration logic to provide an interface between a print manager and one or more client devices supporting a plurality of language formats and to convert print job instructions from the plurality of language formats to a language format supported by the print manager and allow the print manager to communication status back on the print job in its own language and have that converted in to the language the client device understands.

Application integration mechanism

A system to generate perform document optimizations is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to receive a print file including one or more print jobs to be processed, determine a number of processing steps to be implemented to process the print file, generate a microservice corresponding to each of the step components and process each of the step components via a corresponding microservice.

Microservice architecture workflow management mechanism

Systems and methods for mobile document generation from a print workflow. One system is an apparatus that includes a workflow with an interface that receives a print job that defines multiple documents. The workflow server also includes a controller that directs devices of a print shop in accordance with a print workflow that comprises an ordered set of activities to perform upon the documents. The controller records content from the documents while the print job is being processed in the workflow for generating a mobile version of the documents. The controller also identifies a document for viewing on a mobile device, and identifies a template for generating the mobile version of the document. The controller further inserts the content recorded for the document into the template to generate the mobile version of the document, and provides the mobile version of the document to the mobile device.

Mobile document generation from a print workflow

Systems and methods are provided for dynamically splitting print jobs to reduce the time taken to start printing those jobs. One embodiment is a print server that includes an interface that receives a Portable Document Format (PDF) print job. The print server also includes a job controller that determines a size of the PDF print job, and estimates a delay to start marking a first page of the PDF print job. In response to determining that the delay exceeds a threshold, the job controller splits the PDF print job into segments by: generating a first PDF segment that has a delay to start marking the first page that is less than the threshold, and includes a PDF page tree; transmitting the first PDF segment to the printer; generating an additional PDF segment that includes an additional PDF page tree; and transmitting the additional PDF segment to the printer.

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Firestone, CO, United States of America

Joseph Wayne Stradling