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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2017
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Muralidaran Krishnasamy, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Narayan Kesavan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Raj Kumar, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Karthikeyan Devaraj, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Dipta Chatterjee, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Siva Perumal, Port Blair, IN;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A print device that has a port, a print engine, a processing device and a memory. The print device is configured to detect that a portable memory device has become communicatively connected to the port, retrieve a digital document file to be printed and a print instruction from the portable memory device, determine that a first print job is being performed in the print device, determine a priority for the first print job and a priority for a second print job derived from the digital document file, and determine that the priority of the first print job is lower than that of the second print job. The print device is also configured to suspend performance of the first print job, automatically perform the second print job based on the print instruction, detect that the second print job has been completed or interrupted, and automatically resume the first print job.