Patent ID: 9292230
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A print-management system comprising: a plurality of web-submission servers, each web-submission server hosting a website configured to allow submission of print jobs to the print management system; and a print server configured to receive print jobs from the plurality of web-submission servers, process the print jobs, and send print jobs to at least one printer to be printed, wherein the print-management system is configured to add an identifier to each received print job to identify the website that received the print job, wherein the print server is configured so that print jobs are processed based on the identifiers of the website added to the print jobs, wherein the print server is configured so that print jobs received from one or more web-submission servers are manually assigned to printers by an operator based on a result of a first filtering and a second filtering, or the print server is configured to automatically route print jobs received from one or more web-submission servers to printers based on a result of a first filtering and a second filtering, and wherein the first filtering for routing the print jobs for printing is performed on the print jobs based on a first filtering criterion, the first filtering criterion being the respective identifier of the website added to each of the print jobs, and, after the first filtering is performed, a second filtering criterion is entered and the second filtering for routing the print jobs for printing is performed on the print jobs based on the second filtering criterion.