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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
David L. Salgado, Victor, NY (US);
Rodney L Turmon, Rochester, NY (US);
Nicholas M. Lamendola, Lima, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for prioritizing the use of multifunctional printing system's basic processing resources to permit job streaming. The printing system employs a controller with an improved job contention manager (JCM). A plurality of basic resources of the printing system are provided with a queue. One or more job services, at desired times, signals the JCM to carry out a sub-job of a given job. The signal for each of the sub-jobs includes information about the respective sub-job's, job service and its priority. Responsive to the signal from the job service the JCM adds a corresponding basic resource sub-job to the queues of each basic resource which the sub-job will require to perform the sub-job. A first of the sub-jobs is placed in an “Active” state ready for processing, if the first sub-job is at the top of all of the queues, of all the basic resources, required to perform the first sub-job. A second of the sub-jobs, which immediately follows the first sub-job in a basic resource queue, is also placed in an “Active” state ready for processing after the first sub-job, if the first and second basic job resources in said queue are submitted by the same job service.