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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2009
Applicants:
Rong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Minh Binh DO, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present application a new and improved system and method of enhanced Lean Document Production (LDP), which applies cellular manufacturing to document printing operations. The LDP process incorporates process friendly cells and, a push model to order to improve efficiency, reduce work in progress and smooth out the 'frictions' in production environments. The current application presents an earliest-completion-time strategy for assigning jobs to cells and a dynamic-priority-based-batch-scheduling algorithm.