Patent Document ID: 7710590
Application ID: 11527934

Base Claim:
1. A method for generation of a print job ticket comprising: extracting page attribute information from a first electronic document; embedding the page attribute information as an object within the first electronic document; extracting page attribute information from a second electronic document; embedding the page attribute information as an object within the second electronic document; processing the first and second electronic documents to form a print job; automatically reading the objects embedded in the processed documents to retrieve embedded page attribute information; and generating a job ticket for the print job based on the retrieved embedded page attribute information of the first and second electronic documents, including automatically assigning a first page attribute to at least a first page of the print job which includes information from the first document based on the object embedded in the first document and assigning a second page attribute to at least a second page of the print job which includes information from the second document based on the object embedded in the second document.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the object embedded in the first document includes a first page attribute and the object embedded in the second document includes a second page attribute which is different from the first page attribute and wherein the objects embedded in the first and second documents are different.