Patent ID: 8760683
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a computer-readable storage medium to process on a server and to perform the method, comprising: receiving, a print job request with print data from a requestor, the requestor is an automated service that provides automated interaction; identifying a future date and time requested for the print job request and made by the requestor; and assuring the requestor that the print job request is to execute on the future date and time after successful inspection of a schedule for a geographic location of other print jobs that are set to print on given dates and times, and ensuring that there are not any of the other print jobs that are submitted for processing to a specified printer that are to run past the future date and time for which the print job request is to start on the specified printer, and wherein the requestor guaranteed that the print job will execute on the future date and time without any interference, the schedule defined in a calendar for a specific printer at the geographical location and the calendar managed by a calendar system and entries within the calendar for the printer represents scheduled print jobs that are to be executed on the printer with each entry showing a start time and end time for a particular print job, and factoring into a determination for the end time an estimation for an amount of processing time to complete the particular print job on the specific printer at the start time.