US 12,436,721 B2
Method and system for aggregate asset routing
Leore Avidar, San Francisco, CA (US); Ami Wang, San Francisco, CA (US); Manushika Yapa, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew Nisbet, San Francisco, CA (US); and Boa Khanh Tran, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Lob.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lob.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/141,469.
Application 18/141,469 is a continuation of application No. 17/540,521, filed on Dec. 2, 2021, granted, now 11,748,052.
Application 17/540,521 is a continuation of application No. 17/127,125, filed on Dec. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,221,813, issued on Jan. 11, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/950,680, filed on Dec. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0385005 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/1296 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1291 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for asset routing, comprising a processing system configured to:
receive an asset to be printed and a set of asset parameter values describing physical parameters for the asset;
determine a ruleset comprising a plurality of rules, wherein each rule of the ruleset is associated with a different asset parameter value permutation, wherein each rule of the ruleset comprises a set of partner weights for a set of print partners, wherein a print partner is associated with different partner weights in different rules;
select a rule from the ruleset based on the set of asset parameter values;
automatically determine a set of preferred print partners from the set of print partners based on the rule of the ruleset;
determine a set of available print partners from the set of preferred print partners based on a capacity of each print partner of the set of preferred print partners;
probabilistically select the print partner for the asset from the set of available print partners based on the partner weight for each available print partner as specified by the rule; and
route the asset to the print partner for printing.