Application Integration Mechanism for Print Job Language Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current print services systems face inefficiencies and high costs due to the need for customized interfaces to communicate with external systems using different language formats, such as JDF and web services, which lack a common standard.
Innovation Solution
An application integration mechanism that provides a single interface to convert print job instructions from various language formats to a host language format, enabling communication between print managers and client servers, and includes components like registration logic, interface logic, and conversion logic to facilitate communication across different software languages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If customized interfaces are generated for each external system to support different language formats, then communication compatibility is improved, but system complexity and development costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message conversion service as an intermediary component that sits between external systems and the core printing system. This service receives messages in various external formats (JDF, JMF, web services, XML, JSON) and converts them to a standardized internal format, eliminating the need to generate customized interfaces for each external system while maintaining full communication compatibility
Solution Approach 2:
The message conversion service implements universal functionality by supporting multiple external language formats and communication protocols through a single unified interface. This multi-functional approach allows the system to communicate with diverse external systems (printers, inserters, folders, cutters, printing software) using one standardized conversion mechanism rather than requiring separate customized interfaces for each system type
2Adaptability or versatility
If customized interfaces are generated for each external system, then communication with different language formats is enabled, but development time and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring the message conversion service with support for multiple external language formats and communication protocols. This advance preparation allows the system to immediately handle various external systems without requiring time-consuming customization for each new integration, as the conversion capabilities are already in place and ready to use
3Device complexity
If a single standardized interface is used for all external systems, then system complexity is reduced, but compatibility with external systems using different language formats deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The message conversion service acts as a mediator that enables a single standardized internal interface to communicate with external systems using different language formats. The service translates external formats (JDF, JMF, web services, XML, JSON) into the standardized internal format, allowing the core system to maintain simplicity while achieving full external compatibility through the conversion layer
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AI summary
A system to is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store application integration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors to execute the application integration logic to provide an interface between a print manager and one or more client devices supporting a plurality of language formats and to convert print job instructions from the plurality of language formats to a language format supported by the print manager and allow the print manager to communication status back on the print job in its own language and have that converted in to the language the client device understands.