公开(公告)号：US5995721A

公开(公告)日：1999-11-30

申请号：US876419

申请日：1997-06-16

申请人： John L. Rourke ,  Steven A. Graham

发明人： John L. Rourke ,  Steven A. Graham

IPC分类号： B41J29/38 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/1288 ,  G06F3/1203 ,  G06F3/1241 ,  G06F3/126

摘要： There is provided a document processing system including at least one document reproduction apparatus and managing on-demand output of a document job. The document job is characterized by a set of job attributes with each job attribute relating to a manner in which the document job is to be processed by the document processing system. The document processing system, which further includes a document server for managing conversion of the document job into the on-demand output, includes: a plurality of queues mapped to a plurality of document processing subsystems, each of the plurality of queues including a set of queue attributes characterizing the extent to which each document processing subsystem mapped to one or more of the plurality of queues is capable of processing a job portion delivered to the one or more queues. The document processing system further includes a queue utility communicating with the plurality of queues. The queue utility compares the set of job attributes and each set of queue attributes to generate a set of information corresponding the set of job attributes with those queues, among the plurality of queues, that are capable of completely processing at least a portion of the document job. In practice, at least a portion of the document job is corresponded with one of the plurality of queues based on the set of information generated by the queue utility.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种文件处理系统，包括至少一个文件再现装置和管理文档作业的按需输出。 文档作业的特征在于一组作业属性，其中每个作业属性与文档处理系统要处理该文档作业的方式有关。 所述文件处理系统还包括用于管理所述文档作业到所述按需输出的转换的文档服务器，所述文档服务器包括：映射到多个文档处理子系统的多个队列，所述多个队列中的每一个包括一组 表征每个文档处理子系统映射到多个队列中的一个或多个队列的能力的队列属性能够处理传送到一个或多个队列的作业部分。 文档处理系统还包括与多个队列通信的队列实用程序。 队列实用程序比较一组作业属性和每组队列属性，以生成一组信息，这些信息与多个队列中的这些队列相对应，这些队列能够完全处理文档的至少一部分 工作。 在实践中，基于由队列实用程序生成的信息集合，文档作业的至少一部分与多个队列之一对应。