Patent ID: 7415449
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method that provides at least one print solution, wherein the solution is based at least in part upon data received from a software application, web interface, or questionnaire, comprising: receiving at least one print process data set that includes at least one of a color requirement, a media characteristic, a print volume, a printer speed, a finishing characteristic, a desired process output, a current process output and a process capacity; mapping the at least one data set into one or more vectors in a case constraint space to create a case log vector; mapping the case log vector into a semantic vector with reduced dimensionality via a latent semantic index transformation to eliminate excessive data from the case log vector such that only relevant data remains; classifying the semantic vector into an existing case cluster whose cluster centroid vector has the largest cosine product with the semantic vector; returning one or more representative workflows of the existing case cluster as one or more recommended print process workflow solutions; and storing at least one record of at least one previous case, wherein the at least one record includes one or more print process related constraints, at least one generated print process workflow and at least one interested print process workflow, wherein the at least one generated print process workflow is provided by the recommendation system and the at least one interested print process workflow is selected from one of the generated print process workflows.