Patent ID: 7812985

Claim:
A system for selective rerouting of document processing jobs comprising: a set of available document processing devices; means adapted for receiving electronic document data representative of a document processing job for an associated document processing device; means adapted for converting received electronic document data into page description data comprised of at least one selected page description language format; means adapted for assigning unique document identification data to the document processing job; determining means adapted for determining the set of available document processing devices available for processing of the document processing job; allocation means adapted for communicating a portion of the page description data to each of the set of available document processing devices; receiving means adapted for receiving, from an associated user, the unique document identification data corresponding to the document processing job at a selected one of the set of available document processing devices, means adapted for communicating a request, inclusive of the unique document identification data, for all portions of the page description data to each of the set of available document processing devices from the selected one of the set of devices responsive to receipt of the unique document identification data; means adapted for receiving page output data from each of the set of available document processing devices responsive to the communicated request in accordance with the unique document identification data; means adapted for recombining, into the page description data, page output data received from each of the set of available document processing devices at the selected document processing device for processing at the selected document processing device after receipt; and means adapted for processing the recombined page description data at the selected document processing device so as to generate page output data therefrom.