Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090257082 | Capturing, processing, managing, and reporting events of interest in virtual collaboration - A method starts when a print job is received from a workstation. The print job includes an identification of an initial printer. The method ranks the abilities of the available printers to process the print job to identify the best printer for the print job. If the initial printer is not ranked as the best printer, the method presents a question/statement to the workstation (to the user through the workstation) regarding whether to redirect the print job to the best printer. | 10-15-2009 |
20100195138 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING DATA BASED ON GOVERNANCE RULES AND POLICIES - A method and system suitable for controlling output capabilities of a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), including a data module for analyzing data related to a plurality of tasks sent to the plurality of MFDs by a plurality of users; and a storage station for storing the data gathered from the plurality of tasks sent to the plurality of MFDs; wherein the data is analyzed based on preexisting output governance rules related to the plurality of users and the plurality of MFDs. | 08-05-2010 |
20100274599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING USAGE POLICY BY MANIPULATING USAGE GOVERNANCE LOGS - A method and system suitable for monitoring usage behaviors of a plurality of users, the usage behaviors related to a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), including a storage station for storing information related to a plurality of attempted tasks transmitted to the plurality of MFDs by the plurality of users; and a processor module for analyzing, at selected time intervals, the information related to the plurality of attempted tasks for user compliance to evaluate one or more preset rules based on the user compliance, the analyzing including automatic print governance alerting, where one or more alerts are configured to be triggered for any of the one or more preset rules. | 10-28-2010 |
20110037996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING PRINT GOVERNANCE RULES AND POLICIES - A method and system for accommodating a plurality of printing systems arranged as an enterprise printing system including a memory for storing printer usage information related to a plurality of tasks performed with respect to the enterprise printing system and a processing module including a tangible processor. The tangible processor is manipulate to (1) analyzing the printer usage information and (2) responsive to said analyzing, automatically generating, at selected time intervals, at least one print governance rule, said at least one print governance rule being used to reduce printing costs for at least one of the plurality of printing systems in the enterprise printing system. | 02-17-2011 |
20120057189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING THE STATUS OF A REMOTE RENDERING JOB - A system and method for tracking a remote rendering job status within a network. A rendering job in association with address information of a desired rendering device can be transmitted to a mobile print server via a print job submission tool. A tracking email message including one or more action links with respect to the rendering job can be presented to a user in order to track the status of the rendering job. A command can be transmitted back to the mobile print server via an email message by accessing the action link provided in association with the tracking email message. Such an approach provides an effective print governance solution in a wide range of remote rendering applications. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057190 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING ATTEMPTED RENDERING JOB WITH ACTUAL RENDERING JOB - An automated system and method for correlating an attempted rendering job with an actual rendering job. A print governance application can be configured with a set of predefined rendering rules in order to manage a rendering job behavior. A rendering policy log data and a rendering job tracking data can be retrieved from a database associated with the print governance application. The policy log data and the job tracking data can be correlated in order to retrieve matched records based on a predefined criterion utilizing a correlation algorithm. A report can be visually generated by analyzing the matched records in order to determine impact of print governance in an enterprise environment. | 03-08-2012 |
20120140261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PRINT GOVERNANCE INTERACTION FOR REMOTE RENDERING APPLICATIONS - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing print governance interaction with respect to a remote rendering application via an EIP workflow. A rendering job in association with address information of a desired rendering device can be transmitted from a mobile communications device to a mobile print server via a rendering job submission tool. A print governance module configured in association with the mobile print server provides a confirmation code to the mobile device and the confirmation code can be entered via the EIP application configured at the rendering device in order to retrieve the rendering job. A print governance message can be displayed at a user interface of the rendering device if the rendering job activity bypasses a print governance policy. The EIP application further permits a user to make changes to the rendering job activity that bypasses the print governance policy via an option button in order to provide an effective print governance solution in a wide range of remote rendering applications. | 06-07-2012 |
20120246559 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING VARIABLE DATA DOCUMENT CONVERSION TIME - A method and system for automatically estimating a conversion time of a complex variable data document. A static document that is to be converted to a variable data document can be provided and each variable data object for example, an object number, an object type, and a number of object type variations associated with the document can be tagged utilizing a tagging schema. An estimation logic can be applied to calculate the conversion time by summing the placement average for the object type, the number of object type and the number of object type variations for each object type. A plan file with placeholders for the variable data objects in the document can be automatically created for effectively planning the capacity of a development and design team in quick turnaround schedules. | 09-27-2012 |
20120274977 | Mobile Access Notification Service Interface - Apparatus are provided that include a mobile access notification service interface configured to operate on messages targeting a mobile access notification service so that a given message targeting a given user via the mobile access notification service causes a access notice indicator of the given user's mobile data communication device to visibly show when data from the given message is ready for access via one or more designated non-mobile access devices. The mobile access notification service interface includes an access notification trigger data detector configured to process and identify, from among plural messages originating at message source machines, access notification messages containing access notification trigger data. A mobile access notification service linking mechanism is configured to link access notification messages containing the access notification trigger data to access notice indicators on corresponding targeted user mobile data communication devices, to link the access notification messages to one or more non-mobile access devices for access of content of the access notification messages at those non-mobile access devices, and to communicate non-mobile access device access code information to the targeted users for controlled user access at the one or more non-mobile access devices. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281250 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESSOR-READABLE MEDIUM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING A JOB TRACKING SOURCE - A method and system for automatically selecting an accurate job tracking source with respect to each rendering device. An output management solution in association with a device manager can be configured to include a device-based accounting source, a job tracking agent source, and a file import source. The job tracking data sources can be configured by an administrator and can be ranked within the device manager based on an accuracy setting. The device-based accounting source can be selected as the most accurate source upon detection of a built-in job tracking capability with respect to the multi-function device. The job tracking agent source and/or the file import source can be selected as the most accurate source if the built-in job tracking capability is not available. A historical job tracking database can be searched by the device manager in order to detect the job tracking agent source. A flag can be provided if the job tracking agent source is not available to indicate a gap in the job tracking agent coverage. | 11-08-2012 |
20130086072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING AND CLASSIFYING GEOLOCATION INFORMATION UTILIZING ELECTRONIC SOCIAL MEDIA - Methods, systems and processor-readable media for extracting and classifying location information utilizing social media messages and/or data thereof. The social media messages can be sampled from a social media database and the messages filtered based on a heuristic rule. A geolocation entity from the unstructured social media messages can be extracted utilizing a geolocation entity extracting module. The messages with the geoentities can be uploaded onto a crowd sourcing platform to manually annotate the messages with a label. A text classification model can be built and learned from the label utilizing a machine learning algorithm and the messages can be classified by a location classifier in order to extract the user location. The user location can then be transformed into a geocode so that a spatial search can be enabled and the distance between the locations can be easily calculated. | 04-04-2013 |
20140055812 | CONTEXT AWARE DOCUMENT SERVICES FOR MOBILE DEVICE USERS - Systems and methods for providing document services to users thereof. The methods involve: obtaining context information describing at least one aspect of a current situation of a user of a mobile communication device; receiving a request for a document service in response to a user software interaction at the mobile communication device; and adapting the document service based on the context information. The document service comprises a print service, a document conversion service, a document workflow service, a secure access service, or a web service. The obtaining, receiving and adapting steps are collectively performed by at least one of the mobile communication device and a computing device (e.g., a server) remotely located from the mobile communication device. | 02-27-2014 |
20140164044 | USE OF ENHANCED USER STATUS TO FACILITATE DOCUMENT WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS - A document workflow management system monitors progress of a document as it moves between various personnel to whom workflow actions have been assigned. When the system identifies that one of the personnel is causing a delay, or is likely to cause a delay, it will identify an alternate person who may perform the action. It may send the document to the alternate person and then return the document to the original workflow when the alternate person has completed the action. | 06-12-2014 |
20140317049 | AUTOMATIC REDACTION OF CONTENT FOR ALTERNATE REVIEWERS IN DOCUMENT WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS - A document workflow management system monitors progress of a document as it moves between various personnel to whom workflow actions have been assigned. It may send the document to the alternate person and then return the document to the original workflow when the alternate person has completed the action. If the document includes content that is subject to an access restriction, it will automatically redact that content before sending it to the alternate person, and it may return the content to the document when the document returns to the original workflow. | 10-23-2014 |