Printer rankings in cloud printing
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorPingping Pan
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Abstract
An approach is provided for ranking cloud printing devices. A printing device ranking service is configured to retrieve printing device information data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of printing devices and print job data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of print jobs that have been processed by the plurality of printing devices. The printing device ranking service determines, based at least upon the printing device information data and the print job data, rankings data for the plurality of printing devices, wherein the rankings data indicate a ranking of the printing devices from the plurality of printing devices.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a printing device ranking service configured to:
- retrieve printing device information data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of printing devices,
- retrieve print job data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of print jobs that have been processed by the plurality of printing devices, and
- determining, based at least upon the printing device information data and the print job data, rankings data for the plurality of printing devices, wherein the rankings data indicate a ranking of the printing devices from the plurality of printing devices.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when processed by one or more processors, cause:
- a printing device ranking service to:
- retrieve printing device information data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of printing devices,
- retrieve print job data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of print jobs that have been processed by the plurality of printing devices, and
- determining, based at least upon the printing device information data and the print job data, rankings data for the plurality of printing devices, wherein the rankings data indicate a ranking of the printing devices from the plurality of printing devices.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- a printing device ranking service:
- retrieving printing device information data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of printing devices,
- retrieving print job data that specifies one or more attributes of a plurality of print jobs that have been processed by the plurality of printing devices, and
- determining, based at least upon the printing device information data and the print job data, rankings data for the plurality of printing devices, wherein the rankings data indicate a ranking of the printing devices from the plurality of printing devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.