Patent ID: 7567941
Filing Date: 2009-07-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring status of documents created by a large scale document production and management process, the production and management process including a plurality of stages including: utilizing a print stream to generate the documents, printing the documents on a printer in accordance with the print stream, and forming completed mail pieces on an inserter from the printed documents in accordance with mail piece creation data files; the method comprising: receiving information regarding status of documents within the inserter stage; displaying, by a computer screen, a graphical representation of a group of documents within the inserter stage, the graphical representation of the group of documents including graphically distinct sub-groups, the status of the documents within the sub-groups being graphically represented in the sub-group displays; selecting a sub-group for closer inspection; and displaying, by the computer screen, the selected sub-group in an expanded form including a graphical representation of individual documents, the graphical representation of individual documents indicating the status of the individual documents; wherein the steps of displaying graphical representations of documents include representing sub-groups of documents and individual documents in a grid pattern wherein consecutive representations in the grid pattern represent consecutive sub-groups of documents and consecutive individual documents.