G06F 3/1241
Dividing a job according to job requirements
Official title: {Dividing a job according to job requirements, e.g. black/white and colour pages, covers and body of books, tabs}
G06F3/1241 (Dividing a job according to job requirements) appears on 247 US grants and 275 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed printing448US 5,287,194 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Distributed printing system216US 5,995,721 AXerox Corporation · 1999
- Multiple print engine with virtual job routing160US 5,859,711 AT/R Systems · 1999
- Automated job creation for job preparation130US 6,509,974 B1Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 2003
- Image processor for processing reservation and information processor for requesting reservation119US 6,785,727 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2004