OBTAINING STATUS DATA

• US 20130290899A1
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo BV (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo BV (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: AMRAN, Asaf
• Application Number:
  US13/460,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290899A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/553 Monitoring or warning means for exhaustion or lifetime end of consumables, e.g. indication of insufficient copy sheet quantity for a job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Examples of the present invention provide systems and method for obtaining status data of a device having a plurality of component parts comprising displaying a visual representation of the device and at least some of its component parts, and in response to a user action selecting a portion of the visual representation performing one of: displaying a visual representation of the portion and subcomponents of the portion, and obtaining and displaying data related to the selected part.

Claims

1. A method of obtaining status data of a device having a plurality of component parts comprising:

displaying a visual representation of the device and at least some of its component parts; and

in response to a user action selecting a portion of the visual representation performing one of;

displaying a visual representation of the portion and subcomponents of the portion; and

obtaining and displaying information related to the selected part.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an option menu related to the selected part.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the option menu includes one or more activity or information options relating to the selected part.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising communicating a request to the device in response to a user action selecting an activity or information option.

5. The method of any claim 4, wherein the visual representation of the device comprises a three dimensional representation of the device.

6. The method of claim 5, the method further comprising, in response to a user action, at least one of rotating the displayed visual representation of the device, and zooming the displayed visual representation of the device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining data related to the selected part comprises communicating with the device via a network to obtain the required data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the visual representation of the device corresponds with a physical arrangement of components of the device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying a visual representation of the device further comprises displaying selected information relating to component parts of the device alongside the displayed component parts of the device.

15. A computer program product comprising computer program code configured, when executed on a processor, to implement the method of claim 1.

10. A system for obtaining status data of a device having a plurality of component parts, the system comprising:

a display;

a memory for storing instructions; and

a processor operable to execute the instructions to thereby cause the system to;

display a visual representation of the device and at least some of its component parts; and

in response to a user action selecting a portion of the visual representation performing one of;

displaying a visual representation of the portion and subcomponents of the portion; and

obtaining and displaying data related to the selected part.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the display comprises a touchscreen display configured to receive user actions by detection of touch events on the touchscreen display.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the visual representation of the device comprises a three dimensional visual representation, and the system further comprising a graphics processor for rendering the three dimensional visual representation.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the device comprises a printing press.

14. The system of claim 10, the system further comprises a network interface for communicating with the device.