Patent Document ID: 8395794
Application ID: 11706698

Base Claim:
1. A system for prioritizing a cache of print jobs associated with at least one print driver, the system comprising: a workstation having a processing unit; at least one print driver having a processing unit, the workstation and the at least one print driver configured for interfacing via a network, and wherein the processing unit of the workstation has a set of programmable instructions configured for: implementing a print job request for a document; and determining whether a document key identifier associated with the document exists, wherein if no document key identifier exists, creating the document key identifier associated with the document; transmitting the document key identifier to the at least one print driver; and wherein the processing unit of the at least one print driver has a set of programmable instructions configured for: receiving the document key identifier from the workstation; determining whether a printer-readable format for the document associated with the document key identifier is stored in at least one of at least two caches configured for interfacing with the workstation and with the at least one print driver via the network; assigning a prioritization identifier to the printer-readable format if the printer-readable format for the document associated with the document key identifier is stored in the at least one of the at least two caches; wherein the prioritization identifier is selected from the group consisting of a timestamp, a document length or a document topic; wherein if the prioritization identifier is the timestamp an additional timestamp is assigned for each print job request; wherein if the prioritization identifier is the document length, one cache of the at least two caches is a document length cache and the printer-readable format for the document associated with the document key identifier is stored in the document length cache; and wherein if the prioritization identifier is the document topic, one cache of the at least two caches is a document importance cache and the printer-readable format for the document associated with the document key identifier is stored in the document importance cache.

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Claim 3:
3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit of the at least one print driver further comprises a set of programmable instructions configured for: processing the print job request as a print job request for a novel printer-readable format by creating the document key identifier associated with the document; and converting the document into the printer-readable format when the printer-readable format corresponding to the document associated with the document key identifier is not stored in the at least one of the at least two caches.