INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20190312987A1
• Filed: 04/02/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: KETSUKA, Masakazu, TAKAHASHI, Toru, TOJO, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 11,283,948 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44594 Unloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00514 for individual users

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a creating unit that creates, from a first application deletable by a person with a first authority, a second application deletable by a person with a second authority; and a deleting unit that deletes the second application according to a predetermined condition when the first application is deleted.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a creating unit that creates, from a first application deletable by a person with a first authority, a second application deletable by a person with a second authority; and

a deleting unit that deletes the second application according to a predetermined condition when the first application is deleted.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the condition includes the number of times the second application is usable or a period during which the second application is usable.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the condition includes a case where either of the number of times or the period is reached first.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the condition is determined for each person with the second authority.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the condition permits a specific person with the second authority to make unlimited use.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the condition is determined for each second application.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the condition allows validation or invalidation to be set for each person with the second authority or each second application, and

when the invalidation is set, the condition does not start being used.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the condition includes contents of an operation for the deletion.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the contents of the operation include displaying a warning or displaying a screen for confirming continued use to enable the continued use.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the deleting unit deletes the second application from a storage area that stores the second application.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

without deleting the second application stored in a storage area, the deleting unit invalidates a function of an instruction unit that instructs the second application to run on a display screen displayed to the person with the second authority.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the invalidated instruction unit is hidden.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the creating unit copies setting values of the first application when the second application is created, and newly stores the setting values.

14. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a creating unit that creates, from a first application capable of executing a processing specified by a setting value of registered setting items, a second application for each user in such a manner that the second application is usable only by the user;

a first receiving unit that receives, for each setting item for the first application, designation of a type related to whether to change a setting value of the second application;

a second receiving unit that receives change of a setting value for the second application; and

a changing unit that changes, according to the type, a setting value received by the second receiving unit.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

when the type is not changeable and the second application is selected, the second receiving unit notifies the user of a scheduled changed value that is scheduled to be used for change of a setting value of the first application at next time when the user uses the second application.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

when the type is a sustainably changeable type and the second application is selected, the second receiving unit displays a screen for confirming whether to accept change of the scheduled changed value even if the second application is an application to be immediately executed without display of a screen for confirming setting contents.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

when the type is an unchangeable type and the second application is selected, the changing unit changes a setting value to a scheduled changed value.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

the first receiving unit receives designation of the type from a creator of the first application.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 18, wherein

the first receiving unit receives, from the creator of the first application, a scheduled changed value that is scheduled to be used for change of a setting value of the first application.

20. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the receiving unit records the scheduled changed value in the second application when setting values of the first and second applications are different from each other.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

when the second application is created, the creating unit copies a setting value of the first application and newly stores the setting value.

22. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

the second receiving unit does not display a screen for confirmation when a third application created from the second application exists, the second and third applications are created by the same creator, and the third application is selected under a circumstance where no setting value is changed upon selection of the second application.

23. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

the second receiving unit displays a screen for confirmation to enable change of a setting value when a third application created from the second application exists, the second and third applications are created by different creators, and the third application is selected.