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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2007
Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, NY (US);
Frederick Cole Mintzer, Shrub Oak, NY (US);
Michael Wilbur Munger, Longmont, CO (US);
Jennifer Q. Trelewicz, Gilroy, CA (US);
Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, NY (US);
Frederick Cole Mintzer, Shrub Oak, NY (US);
Michael Wilbur Munger, Longmont, CO (US);
Jennifer Q. Trelewicz, Gilroy, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing submission of output jobs to a network of output devices, using an output job manager to assign jobs to devices. The assignments are done automatically, based on policies associated with users, output devices, organizations responsible for the output devices, and the system as a whole. User output preferences are expressed as one or more user policies. System and organizational constraints associated with users and output devices and the managing of groups of output devices are also expressed as policies. An optimizing scheduler calculates tradeoffs between user preferences, and factors in constraints to optimize submission of jobs to output devices, and to optimize use and wait times on the output devices.