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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2006
Janeen E. Jahn, Lafayette, CO (US);
Simon P. Jones, Warwick, GB;
Linda S. Liebelt, Boulder, CO (US);
Kyle P. Manning, Lafayette, CO (US);
Dwight R. Palmer, Longmont, CO (US);
Eric M. Sigler, Boulder, CO (US);
Matthew M. Walli, Longmont, CO (US);
Marc A. Willson, Leamington Spa, GB;
Janeen E. Jahn, Lafayette, CO (US);
Simon P. Jones, Warwick, GB;
Linda S. Liebelt, Boulder, CO (US);
Kyle P. Manning, Lafayette, CO (US);
Dwight R. Palmer, Longmont, CO (US);
Eric M. Sigler, Boulder, CO (US);
Matthew M. Walli, Longmont, CO (US);
Marc A. Willson, Leamington Spa, GB;
Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for flexible, configurable job workflow processing. Features and aspects hereof provide for generating workflow models from configurable templates. The workflow models may include one or more phases, each comprising one or more processes, each process comprising one or more steps. The Phases, processes, and steps may all be defined by configuring parameters of corresponding templates. Information defining the workflow models and all job information for jobs to be executed are entries in an integrated database such that creation and update of workflow model information and job information is performed as simple database queries and updates.