Patent ID: 9052848
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a computer, comprising: receiving, at a cloud server over a web, a print job request to print a document on a specified printer; dividing the received print job request into a list of job tasks that includes preprocessing operations to prepare to print the document, print operations to print the document, and post-processing operations to perform after print job completion, wherein the preprocessing, print, and post-processing operations each pertain to rendering an image of the document as a hardcopy output on a print medium; automatically assigning, by the cloud server, a priority within each of the preprocessing, print, and post-processing operations to each job task in the list of job tasks; and causing the document to be printed on the specified printer independent of any other print job request by executing the job tasks in the list in order of the corresponding assigned priorities.