DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREIN

• US 20110016404A1
• Filed: 09/28/2010
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sano, Tetsuji, Konishi, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 9,043,730 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1232 Transmitting printer device capabilities, e.g. upon request or periodically
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily confirm the construction information of the selectable peripheral equipment by everyone by a simple operating instruction, a CPU obtains construction information of a printer that is being selected and default setting on the basis of a selection instructing state relative to a selectable printer candidate on a network and allows them to be caption-displayed at a position near the position indicated by a cursor on a printer selection picture plane displayed on a CRT.

Claims

1. (canceled)

3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first or second object comprises an icon of a printer which can communicate with the data processing apparatus and a name of the printer.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the first or second object comprises an icon of a printer which can communicate with the data processing apparatus and a name of the printer.

7. The storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the first or second object comprises an icon of a printer which can communicate with the data processing apparatus and a name of the printer.

2. A data processing apparatus which communicates with first and second image forming apparatuses, comprising:

a first display control unit constructed to control displaying of a first object of the first image forming apparatus and a second object of the second image forming apparatus; and

a second display control unit constructed to control displaying such that, when a cursor is overlapping the first object, construction information of the first image forming apparatus is displayed, and such that when the cursor is overlapping the second object, construction information of the second image forming apparatus is displayed.

4. A control method carried out in a data processing apparatus which communicates with first and second image forming apparatuses, the method comprising:

controlling displaying of a first object of the first image forming apparatus and a second object of the second image forming apparatus; and

controlling displaying such that, when a cursor is overlapping the first object, construction information of the first image forming apparatus is displayed, and such that when the cursor is overlapping the second object, construction information of the second image forming apparatus is displayed.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing a computer program that causes a computer to execute a control method carried out in a data processing apparatus which communicates with first and second image forming apparatuses, the method comprising:

controlling displaying of a first object of the first image forming apparatus and a second object of the second image forming apparatus; and

controlling displaying such that, when a cursor is overlapping the first object, construction information of the first image forming apparatus is displayed, and such that when the cursor is overlapping the second object, construction information of the second image forming apparatus is displayed.