Method and device for the automatic generation of program code documentation text and management information bases using the data of a database

• US 20060095550A1
• Filed: 07/09/2003
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbH (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbH (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Drexler, Hubert, Nemmaier, Christoph, Sippel, Helmut
• Application Number:
  US10/528,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20060095550A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code

Abstract

In a method for administration of at least one data object of a printer or copier, at least data of a data object are stored in a databank, and an identifier is associated with the data object. At least one first source code with a plurality of instructions is created in a programming language, the source code containing the identifier of the data object. From the first source code, a second source code is generated, the identifier of the data object being replaced by at least one part of the data stored in the databank regarding the data object.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A method for administration of at least one data object of a printer or copier, comprising the steps of:

storing at least data of a data object in a databank, and associating an identifier with the data object;

creating at least one first source code with a plurality of instructions in a programming language, said source code containing the identifier of the data object; and

from said first source code generating a second source code, the identifier of the data object being replaced by at least one part of the data stored in the databank regarding said data object.

15. A method according to claim 14 wherein the data object contains at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of a variable and a constant.

16. A method according to claim 14 wherein a program code for execution in a control unit of the printer or copier is generated with aid of the second source code.

17. A method according to claim 14 wherein at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of the second source code and a program module generated from the second source code comprises a machine program module.

18. A method according to claim 14 wherein the second source code comprises a text document.

19. A method according to claim 18 wherein the text document comprises at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of an operating manual, a service manual, and a technical specification of the printer or copier.

20. A method according to claim 14 wherein the second source code comprises a management information base or, with aid of the second source code, a management information base is generated with whose help at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of a control unit and a structural unit of the printer are administered.

21. A method according to claim 14 wherein the data stored in the databank are accessed via a standardized application interface.

22. A method according to claim 14 wherein at least the first source code comprises a script created in a scripting language, the second source code being generated from the data contained in the databank with aid of the script.

23. A method according to claim 14 wherein at least the first source code is created in a scripting language.

24. A method according to claim 14 wherein the data of the data object comprises at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of size, type, name, position within a data object structure, write/read rights, unit, limit values, and function calls for handling of the data object.

25. A method according to claim 14 wherein the same identifier is associated with a plurality of data objects, and the identifier in the first source code is replaced by data of a plurality of data objects.

26. A device for administration of at least one data object of a printer or copier, comprising:

a first storage region in which at least data of one data object are stored, and wherein an identifier is associated with the data object;

a second storage region in which at least one first source code with a plurality of instructions is stored in a programming language, the source code containing the identifier of the data object; and

the device generates from the first source code a second source code in which the identifier of the data object is replaced by at least a part of the data stored regarding said data object.

27. A method for administration of at least one data object of a printer or copier, comprising the steps of:

storing at least data of a data object in a databank, and associating an identifier with the data object, the data object containing at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of a variable and a constant;

creating at least one first source code with a plurality of instructions in a programming language, said source code containing the identifier of the data object;

from said first source code generating a second source code, the identifier of the data object being replaced by at least one part of the data stored in the databank regarding said data object; and

generating with aid of the second source code a program code for execution in a control unit of the printer or copier.