Patent ID: 8823976
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of queuing a document for processing, comprising: allocating or deallocating document processing and transmission flows in a document server, wherein the document processing and transmission flows are configured to manage processing of one or more documents or document types, the allocating or deallocating being based on a document server's resource utilization, wherein a configurable queue processor performs the allocating or deallocating; associating each of the allocated document processing and transmission flows with one or more document transport modules of a plurality of document transport modules, the one or more document transport modules operating independently of each other in a distributed manner across a network environment, wherein each document transport module of the plurality of document transport modules transports content and related metadata across the network environment based on a document type or a transport type, wherein a first allocated document processing and transmission flow is associated with a first document transport module of the one or more document transport modules; receiving a document at the document server; placing the document in a document queue; retrieving, by the first allocated document processing and transmission flow, the document from the document queue; and providing the retrieved document to the first document transport module associated with the first allocated document processing and transmission flow.