NETWORK PRINTER SELECTION BASED ON PRINTER STATUS AND PROFILES

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20140185083A1
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13729383

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A computer program product maintains a printer profile associated with each of a plurality of printers. For each printer, the printer profile includes the current power status, a cost to power up, and a rate of cost to print. A print job is received and, for each printer, a total cost to print the print job, including the cost to power on the printer, is determined. The print job is redirected from a default printer to a destination printer selected from printers having a lower total cost to print. Each printer profile may further include a time period to power up and a print speed, and, for each printer, a total time period to print the print job is determined. The total time period includes an amount of time to complete other print jobs, and further includes, where the printer is off, the time period to power on the printer.

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LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDSINGAPORE 556741

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cudak, Gary D Creedmoor, US 363 3150
Hardee, Chistopher J Raleigh, US 2 15
Humes, Randall C Raleigh, US 43 472
Roberts, Adam Moncure, US 170 1507

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