Patent ID: 8411301

Claim:
A location-based document output scheduling system comprising: a data storage; an input for receiving an electronic document into the data storage; a display; a display generator for generating a map on the display, the map including indicia showing locations on the map of a plurality of alternative facility locations suitable for use in hosting a selected event for which a printed copy of the electronic document will be created, the selected event having an event time at which the selected event will take place; the display generator further for generating, on the map, indicia showing locations of a plurality of alternative document rendering devices suitable for generating the printed copy of the electronic document; a device selection data input for receiving user-supplied device selection data identifying a selected document rendering device selected from the plurality of alternative document rendering devices; a temporal data input for receiving, from a user, temporal data including a user-selected time for completion of the document rendering operation, the user-selected time for completion of the document rendering operation being in advance of the event time for the selected event; and a job processor operable to commence operation of the selected document rendering device so as to complete the document rendering operation on the electronic document to thereby generate the printed copy by the user-selected time upon confirmation that the selected event has not been cancelled.