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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2013
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Eric Michael Gross, Rochester, NY (US);
Jack Gaynor Elliot, Penfield, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Ranjit Kumar Ettam, Pradesh, IN;
Anand Singh, Karnataka, IN;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of determining a cell configuration in a print production environment may include identifying a set of print devices to assign to a cell, identifying a print device number, identifying one or more subsets of print devices from the set, where each subset includes a unique portion of the print devices in the set, and each subset includes a number of print devices equal to the print device number, performing a simulation of operation on each subset to determiner a subset performance metric for each subset, selecting one of the subsets based on the associated subset performance metric, decrementing the print device number by an amount, updating the set with the selected subset, and repeating the identifying one or more subsets, performing the simulation, selecting one of the subsets, decrementing the print device number and updating until no subset performance metric satisfies a performance constraint.