Customer-configurable print workflow system

US8284423B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC · US

Inventors

• Janeen E. Jahn · Lafayette, US
• Simon Jones · Hamilton, BM
• Linda S. Liebelt · Boulder, US
• Kyle P. Manning · Lafayette, US
• Dwight Ross Palmer · Longmont, US
• Eric M. Sigler · Boulder, US
• Matthew M. Walli · Longmont, US
• Marc A. Willson · Nesbitt, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 7, 2006
• Grant date: Oct 9, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 26, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for flexible, configurable job workflow processing. Features and aspects hereof provide for generating workflow models from configurable templates. The workflow models may include one or more phases, each comprising one or more processes, each process comprising one or more steps. The Phases, processes, and steps may all be defined by configuring parameters of corresponding templates. Information defining the workflow models and all job information for jobs to be executed are entries in an integrated database such that creation and update of workflow model information and job information is performed as simple database queries and updates.