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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2007
Michael David Shepherd, Ontario, NY (US);
Barry Glynn Gombert, Rochester, NY (US);
Michael David Shepherd, Ontario, NY (US);
Barry Glynn Gombert, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A print shop management method or system is used for a print shop. The method or system uses a knowledge base containing device data elements and service data elements. Each device data element represents a device in the print shop, and each service data element represents a service that may be implemented by one or more of the devices. A workflow management system implements an automated reasoner that, when a new device is added or one or more parameters of a device in the print shop are modified, uses semantic reasoning to select a service that may be implemented by the modified device, updates the knowledge base to include a new device element for the new or modified device; and automatically associates the new device element and the selected service.