Patent ID: 9524127
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing a print job, the method comprising: receiving the print job from a computing device, wherein the received print job comprises an electronic document intended to be printed; comparing the received print job with pending print jobs and executed print jobs, wherein the pending print jobs and the executed print jobs are stored in one or more print queues associated with one or more printing systems, and wherein the comparison is performed by comparing content of the electronic document contained in the received print job with content of electronic documents contained in the pending print jobs and the executed print jobs, the content comparison being performed in a cascade of metadata comparison, text comparison, and image comparison; suspending one or more of the pending print jobs when the one or more pending print jobs are determined to be similar to the received print job; suspending the received print job when the received print job is determined to be similar to one or more of the executed print jobs; and deleting the one or more suspended pending print jobs or the suspended received print job based on at least one of a confirmation by a user, or an elapse of a predefined time period.