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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2014
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Eric Michael Gross, Rochester, NY (US);
Sudhendu Rai, Fairport, NY (US);
Jack Gaynor Elliot, Penfield, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of assigning a hub to a job source may include identifying one or more job sources where one or more print jobs are received, identifying one or more hubs to which the print jobs can be sent to be processed, determining a processing cost for each unique pair of job sources and hubs, creating, by a computing device, a job source list by identifying the pair associated with the largest processing cost, assigning the job source of the identified pair a highest position in the job source list, and repeating the identifying and the assigning for a next highest position until all identified job sources are assigned, and assigning the job source having the highest position in the job source list to an associated hub having a lowest processing cost.