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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2009
Zhigang Fan, Webster, NY (US);
R. Victor Klassen, Webster, NY (US);
David Mantell, Rochester, NY (US);
Warren Kleiman, Fairport, NY (US);
Gregory W. Zack, Pittsford, NY (US);
Christopher Jon Regruit, Rochester, NY (US);
Zhigang Fan, Webster, NY (US);
R. Victor Klassen, Webster, NY (US);
David Mantell, Rochester, NY (US);
Warren Kleiman, Fairport, NY (US);
Gregory W. Zack, Pittsford, NY (US);
Christopher Jon Regruit, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A printing system capable of concurrently processing and scheduling a plurality of job streams and including at least one marking engine and multiple print media destination is controlled by a controller that includes a jobs scheduler for determining a schedule for processing queued print jobs using the plurality of concurrent job streams. The job scheduler determines the schedule using a method including: determining a utility function dependent at least upon user preference delay criteria, and the schedule of the queued print jobs; and optimizing the utility function respective to the schedule of queued print jobs.