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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2011
Wei Peng, Webster, NY (US);
Shi Zhao, Rochester, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
David Thomas Ashby, Pittsford, NY (US);
Wei Peng, Webster, NY (US);
Shi Zhao, Rochester, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
David Thomas Ashby, Pittsford, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of recommending vendors to bid on a print job may include identifying a print job for which a recommendation of vendors to bid on the print job is desired and identifying one or more vendors as potential bidders for the print job. The method may include, for each identified vendor, determining, by a computing device, a bidding probability associated with the vendor, a winning probability associated with the vendor, a recommendation probability associated with the vendor, and identifying the vendor as a recommended vendor based on the associated recommendation probability. The method may include notifying a user of the recommended vendors.