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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Eric Michael Gross, Rochester, NY (US);
Timothy Wayne Jacobs, Fairport, FL (US);
Jack Gaynor Elliot, Penfield, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Eric Michael Gross, Rochester, NY (US);
Timothy Wayne Jacobs, Fairport, FL (US);
Jack Gaynor Elliot, Penfield, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of assigning a job to a production device may include identifying a queue comprising a plurality of print jobs, identifying a plurality of print production devices capable of processing the plurality of print jobs, determining that one of the identified print production devices is an idle print production device, identifying a top priority print job from the queue, determining a completion time associated with processing the top priority print job by each of the identified print production devices, identifying a fastest print production device, assigning the top priority print job to the fastest print production device, determining whether the fastest print production device is the idle print production device, and in response to determining that the fastest print production device is the idle print production device, sending the top priority print job to the fastest print production device and removing the top priority print job from the queue.