Patent ID: 8665469

Claim:
A system that facilitates raster image processing interleaved chunks in a distributed computing network, comprising: at least one subordinate node comprising a raster image processor and which receives at least one interleaved chunk for raster image processing; a controller node, operatively coupled to the at least one subordinate node, that receives an input file comprising a plurality of pages for raster image processing, the controller node comprising: a supervisor module that provides a skip count (N) for generating interleaved chunks comprising at least two non-adjacent pages of the input file; a splitter module that generates the interleaved chunks using the skip count in order to identify the at least two non-adjacent pages for inclusion in each interleaved chunk, wherein the skip count comprises an integer N greater than or equal to 1, such that the non-adjacent pages in each interleaved chunk are logically separated by N pages; a collector module that receives an indication that at least one raster image processed page is complete, and reports page number information for the at least one raster image processed page to the supervisor module; wherein the collector module logically orders raster image processed pages as they are completed by the at least one subordinate node.