The present invention relates to a system for operating textile printing machines, with a first textile printing machine and at least one second textile printing machine, which machines are provided in a first entity or a second entity, which are independent of each other, wherein each textile printing machine is provided with a data-processing module, which detects data about the state, set-up and/or utilization of the textile printing machine, wherein the textile printing machine transmits the detected data to a data center, independent from entities and/or location, and wherein the data center is configured to accept print jobs from third parties and, based on the transmitted data, to transmit at least one print job fitting the data to one of the at least two textile printing machines. Moreover, the invention relates to a module for the system according to the invention.

Static parameters of a software container are identified that relate to metadata of the software container itself. The software container is assigned to a selected runtime environment based on the static parameters using a first machine learning model. Runtime parameters for the software container are identified by analyzing the software container at runtime. The runtime parameters relate to operations that the software container requires during runtime. Using a second machine learning model, it is determined whether the selected runtime environment matches the runtime parameters. Where the runtime environment matches, the software container continues to run in this environment. Where the runtime environment does not match, the software container is run in a different runtime environment that matches both the static and runtime parameters.

An image processing apparatus includes: a determiner configured to, upon determining that information processing is not to be performed by the image forming apparatus based on a load status of the image forming apparatus, determine whether or not other image forming apparatuses on a network include an alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing based on load statuses of the other image forming apparatuses acquired from a server apparatus via the network; and a requester configured to, when the other image forming apparatuses include the alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing, request the alternative image forming apparatus to perform the information processing, but when the other image forming apparatuses do not include the alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing, request the server apparatus to perform the information processing.

Provides is an information processing apparatus that is capable of efficiently executing a series of tasks related to reading a document. In the information processing system according to the present disclosure a document reading apparatus includes a performance-information-transmitting unit that transmits performance information in accordance with a request from the information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus includes a performance-information-acquiring unit, a task-sharing unit, and a task-execution-control unit. The performance-information-acquiring unit acquires performance information of the document reading apparatus. The task-sharing unit, in accordance with the performance information that is acquired by the performance-information-acquiring unit, determines which tasks of a series of tasks for data of a document that is read by the document reading apparatus will be executed by an own apparatus and by the document reading apparatus, and shares the tasks. The task-execution-control unit causes tasks that are determined by the task-sharing unit to be tasks that will be executed by the own apparatus to be executed by the own apparatus, and causes tasks that are determined to be tasks that will be executed by the document reading apparatus to be executed by the document reading apparatus, and processes the tasks as a series of tasks.

Provided is an information processing apparatus that efficiently executes a series of tasks related to reading a document. An information processing system includes an upstream server, image forming apparatuses and a regional server. An apparatus-information-acquiring unit of the upstream server acquires apparatus information from plural image forming apparatuses. A task-sharing unit shares the respective tasks of a series of tasks for document data that is read by a specified image forming apparatus, based on a storage unit that is an apparatus-information-storage unit that stores an ID, position information that indicates a position in a network, and performance information for that image forming apparatuses that is included in the apparatus information. The task-sharing unit, in accordance with the ID and performance information of plural image forming apparatuses, determines and shares tasks so as to be executed by image forming apparatuses that are at nearby positions in the network.

A document routing method performed by a cloud printing system is provided. The document routing method includes receiving a request to print a document, selecting, based on attributes of the document, one of a plurality of rendering clusters, selecting, based on a job performing status of each of a plurality of rendering servers, one of the plurality of rendering servers included in the selected rendering cluster, transmitting the document to the selected rendering server, and requesting the selected rendering server to perform rendering on the document.

An operating state of each of a plurality of storage units of a storage system is periodically monitored, including a storage capacity, a throughput, and overlap of clients associated with the storage units. In response to a request to redistribute data from a first of the storage units to another storage unit, a cost factor for each of remaining storage units to relocate the data of the first storage unit to each of the remaining storage units is determined. A cost factor of each of the remaining storage units is determined based on at least one of the storage capacity, the throughput, or the overlap of clients of the storage unit. A second of the storage units having a lowest cost factor amongst the remaining storage units is selected. At least a portion of the data of the first storage unit is migrated to the second storage unit.

A document routing method performed by a cloud printing system is provided. The document routing method includes receiving a request to print a document, selecting, based on attributes of the document, one of a plurality of rendering clusters, selecting, based on a job performing status of each of a plurality of rendering servers, one of the plurality of rendering servers included in the selected rendering cluster, transmitting the document to the selected rendering server, and requesting the selected rendering server to perform rendering on the document.

An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus comprises: a storage unit which, from among a plurality of image forming apparatuses, stores information about at least one other image forming apparatus which constitutes a virtual device and an image forming apparatus; a communication unit for performing communication with the at least one other image forming apparatus; a user interface unit for displaying a UI screen including an object corresponding to the virtual device; a task processing unit; and a control unit which, when a virtual device is selected through the UI screen and a job execution command is inputted, controls the task processing unit to process at least one first task among a plurality of tasks constituting one job, requests the at least one other image forming apparatus to process at least one second task among a plurality of tasks, and distributes the job.

A method disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of jobs at a printing environment, detecting a selection of a set of the plurality jobs, automatically calculating an aggregate work volume estimation for set of selected jobs and displaying the aggregate work volume estimation at a graphical user interface.