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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Samuel J Comstock, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gregory Gaskill Dent, Seattle, WA (US);
Jianming Zhang, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Cunningham, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcus Van Kempen, Belgium, NL;
Samuel J Comstock, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gregory Gaskill Dent, Seattle, WA (US);
Jianming Zhang, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Cunningham, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcus van Kempen, Belgium, NL;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for multi-vendor printing including maintaining a data store that includes information about service level agreements with partner systems, wherein a partner system enables customers to order a plurality of customized print products, and wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for manufacturing customer print orders, and characteristics of print vendors, receiving a customer print order from one of the partner systems, the print order specifying a customized print product, determining a latest ship date for the customized print product, selecting one of the print vendors to manufacture the customized print product, and receiving updates from the selected print vendor and relaying the received updates to the partner system that issued the customer print order.