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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ryoichi Yokoohji, San Mateo, CA (US);
Danny Naoshi Kumamoto, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC., San Mateo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/126 (2013.01); G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1211 (2013.01); G06F 3/1273 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); H04N 1/00408 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a print job management method that provides efficient managing, routing and processing of print jobs amongst multiple printers. By first ranking the printers based on one or more positive and negative history factors as well as a user intention associated with a print job, and then selecting a destination printer from the ranked printers, the print job management method disclosed herein significantly reduces the evaluation workload in locating the best printer for each print job.