REORDER SYSTEM FOR USE WITH AN ELECTRONIC PRINTING PRESS

Patent №

US 6,246,993

Granted

2001-06-12

Filed 1997

Owner

R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY, A DELAWARE CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08959994

A method of, and system for, selectively reordering the reprinting of books on one or more electronic presses are disclosed. In one embodiment, sensors and a processor are utilized to reorder books fouled by an auxiliary device. In another embodiment, a sensor, and a global processor in communication with first and second local processors respectively associated with first and second printing presses are utilized to reorder books on one of the first and second printing presses selected to minimize processing time and/or to maximize postal rate discounts. In another embodiment, a sensor and a press processor are utilized to reorder errored books by inserting a book back into a stream of books being printed if re-printing the book with the stream entitles the errored book to a predefined postal discount.

PlanningG06Q 10/06G06F 40/10G06Q 10/06316

AI classification

Planning0.91
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY, A DELAWARE CORPORATION

assignment · 92620316

Assignors

DREYER, MARK G., WARMUS, JAMES L., GILL, ROBERT W., KITZMILLER, ROGER

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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