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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
May. 28, 2009
Timothy Wayne Jacobs, Fairport, NY (US);
Timothy Wayne Jacobs, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system for designing cells in a document production environment may include a computing device and a computer-readable medium in communication with the computing device. The computer-readable medium may include one or more programming instructions for identifying a plurality of jobs associated with the document production environment. Each job may include one or more functions. The computer-readable medium may include one or more programming instructions for generating a representation for each unique job, creating one or more workflows, assigning the workflow to one of a plurality of cells, determining whether one or more of the cells is complex, and splitting at least one workflow within a complex cell. Each cell may include one or more devices.