Patent ID: 8503007
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for processing of a plurality of document processing jobs in a computer-aided document processing system, comprising the steps of: generating job chaperone data via a graphical user interface by a job provider computer by user interaction that manually identifies one or more preferred job processing printer apparatuses relative to other job processing printer apparatuses of a same type in said job provider computer with respect to a document processing job, and wherein said job chaperone data comprise respective printer preference data about a degree of preference manually selected from multiple priority levels of degree of priority by the user for each of said one or more job processing printer apparatuses of the same type, said chaperone data being stored in a job ticket file output from said job provider computer for said document processing job to a job agent computer which uses the printer preference data created by said user interaction to identify the preferred one or more job processing printer apparatuses; also providing the job chaperone data with time scheduling data useable for a job agent-side time scheduling with regard to assignment of the jobs to the job processing printer apparatuses of a same type, and wherein the time scheduling data are related to resources comprising physical objects consumed by processing the jobs in the printer apparatuses of the same type; and sending said job chaperone data created by the user from the job provider computer to the job agent computer.