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US 9,069,499 B2Granted
Print processing network
AssigneeInfoPrint Solutions Company LLC
InventorsMarquis G. Waller, Joseph P. Gaertner, Jon A. Meilstrup, Brian P. Doyle, Linda S. Liebelt
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Abstract
A method disclosed. The method includes downloading a first print job data stream from a cloud computing network, transmitting the first print job data stream to a printer, monitoring a printing status of the printer to determine when the printer is ready to receive a second print job and downloading a second print job data stream from the cloud computing network upon determining that the printer is ready to receive the second print job.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- a secondary print server downloading a first print job data stream from a primary print server implemented in a cloud computing network;
- transmitting the first print job data stream from the secondary print server to a printer;
- the secondary print server monitoring a printing status of the printer to determine when the printer is ready to receive a second print job by:
- calculating a time to complete printing the first print job;
- calculating a time to download a second print job data stream from the primary print server and begin printing the second print job data stream;
- and
- comparing the time to download and begin printing the second print job data stream to the time to complete printing the first print job;
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- the secondary print server downloading a second print job data stream from the primary print server upon determining that the printer is ready to receive the second print job.
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A printing system, comprising:
- a printer to apply data to a print medium;
- and
- a secondary print server to download a first print job data stream from a primary print server implemented in a cloud computing network, transmit the first print job data stream to the printer, monitor a printing status of the printer by calculating a time to complete printing the first print job by calculating a time to download a second print job data stream from the primary print server and begin printing the second print job data stream, and comparing the time to download and begin printing the second print job data stream to the time to complete printing the first print job, and download a second print job data stream from the cloud computing network upon determining that the printer is ready to receive a second print job.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- a secondary print server downloading a first print job data stream from a primary print server implemented in a cloud computing network;
- transmitting the first print job data stream from the secondary print server to a printer;
- the secondary print server monitoring a printing status of the printer to determine when the printer is ready to receive a second print job by:
- calculating a time to complete printing the first print job;
- calculating a time to download a second print job data stream from the primary print server and begin printing the second print job data stream;
- and
- comparing the time to download and begin printing the second print job data stream to the time to complete printing the first print job;
- and
- the secondary print server downloading a second print job data stream from the primary print server upon determining that the printer is ready to receive the second print job.
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A printing network, comprising:
- a primary print server implemented in a cloud computing network including a printing software product to process print job data streams;
- a second server to download a first print job data stream from the cloud computing network server, convert the first print job data stream to a second data stream format and transmit the first print job data stream;
- and
- a printer to apply the first print job data stream to a print medium,
- wherein the server monitors a printing status of the printer by calculating a time to complete printing the first print job by calculating a time to download a second print job data stream from the primary print server and begin printing the second print job data stream, and comparing the time to download and begin printing the second print job data stream to the time to complete printing the first print job, and downloads a second print job data stream from the cloud computing network server upon determining that the printer is ready to receive a second print job.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.