Patent Document ID: 8136120
Application ID: 11870107

Base Claim:
1. A method of processing a print job in a document production environment, comprising: receiving a job ticket for the print job, wherein the job ticket comprises one or more job ticket parameters for processing the print job; identifying a process plan template comprising one or more processing instructions for processing the print job; performing, by a computing device, a parameter value resolving process for each job ticket parameter to yield a set of resolved parameter values by: identifying a plurality of candidate values for the job ticket parameter, wherein each of the plurality of candidate values is associated with a source, and determining whether the source associated with one of the plurality of candidate values has precedence over the sources for the other candidate values, and if so, selecting a candidate value of the plurality of candidate values whose source has precedence as a resolved parameter value; presenting a user with a representation of the set of the resolved parameter values, and permitting the user to modify at least one of the resolved parameter value of the set of resolved parameter values to yield a user-modified parameter value; processing a first portion of the print job using the identified process plan template, at least one resolved parameter value of the set of the resolved parameter values, and the user-modified parameter values, wherein using the resolved parameter value in the processing of the first portion of the print job comprises: assigning a substring value associated with the at least one resolved parameter value to yield a corresponding final value, and applying the corresponding final value to the identified process plan template; after at least one instruction from the identified process plan template has been implemented, performing the parameter value resolving process for each parameter value that has not yet been resolved to yield at least one subsequently-resolved parameter value; and processing a second portion of the print job using the identified process plan template, the set of resolved parameter values, the user-modified parameter values, and each of the at least one subsequently-resolved parameter values.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether one of the plurality of candidate values has the source with precedence over the sources for the other candidate values comprises: receiving, from the user, an information type associated with the source of the parameter value; determining a set of candidate sources corresponding to the information type; presenting the set of candidate sources to the user; and receiving, from the user, a source selection from the set of candidate sources.