Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Industrial printing system, print server, and grouping process method for peer-to-peer grouping of production printing jobs
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Application No.: US17967718Application Date: 2022-10-17
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Publication No.: US12073136B2Publication Date: 2024-08-27
- Inventor: Taku Matsuo
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Hawall Patent Services
- Agent Nathaniel K. Fedde; Kenton N. Fedde
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12

Abstract:
Provided is an industrial printing system for peer-to-peer grouping of production prints. The industrial printing system performs production printing with a plurality of servers that perform distributed processing of jobs. Each of the plurality of print servers includes a condition setting unit, a condition sharing unit, a job acquiring unit, and a job processing unit. The condition setting unit sets a grouping condition for grouping the jobs. The condition sharing unit shares the grouping condition set by the condition setting unit with other print server. The job acquiring unit acquires a plurality of jobs that meets the grouping condition from the other print server. The job processing unit groups and processes the plurality of jobs acquired by the job acquiring unit.
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