INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20200133595A1
• Filed: 10/16/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: MATSUI, Haruki, NAKATANI, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 11,556,288 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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 3/1225 Software update, e.g. print driver, modules, plug-ins, fonts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/123 Software or firmware update, e.g. device firmware management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00506 Customising to the data to be displayed

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to install a function in a device connected to a communication line, and receives designation of a display location of a selection part used to select the function on a screen displayed in the device in a case where the function is installed in the device, and a control unit that controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is displayed in the display location, in which the designation is received in the reception unit, on the screen of the device.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit that receives an instruction to install a function in a device connected to a communication line, and receives designation of a display location of a selection part, which is used to select the function, on a screen displayed in the device in a case where the function is installed in the device; and

a control unit that controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is displayed in the display location, in which the designation is received in the reception unit, on the screen of the device.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit that displays a designation screen, which is used to designate the display location of the selection part of the function, in a display area,

wherein the reception unit receives the display location of the selection part of the function from the designation screen displayed by the display unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires configurational information of the screen in the device,

wherein the display unit displays different designation screens in the display area according to the configurational information of the screen, which is acquired in the acquisition unit, in the device.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a notification unit notifies that it is not possible to display the selection part of the function in the received display location in a case where a selection part of a specific function, which is different from the function, is already displayed in the display location of the selection part of the function, which is received in the reception unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a notification unit notifies that it is not possible to display the selection part of the function in the received display location in a case where a selection part of a specific function, which is different from the function, is already displayed in the display location of the selection part of the function, which is received in the reception unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a notification unit notifies that it is not possible to display the selection part of the function in the received display location in a case where a selection part of a specific function, which is different from the function, is already displayed in the display location of the selection part of the function, which is received in the reception unit.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is not displayed in a specific location, which is set in advance, of the screen of the device.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is not displayed in a specific location, which is set in advance, of the screen of the device.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is not displayed in a specific location, which is set in advance, of the screen of the device.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is not displayed in a specific location, which is set in advance, of the screen of the device.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is not displayed in a specific location, which is set in advance, of the screen of the device.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device such that the selection part of the function is not displayed in a specific location, which is set in advance, of the screen of the device.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the specific location is set to at least one of an upper left part or a lower right part of the screen in a top page in which the selection part of the function installed in the device is displayed as a list.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the specific location is set to at least one of an upper left part or a lower right part of the screen in a top page in which the selection part of the function installed in the device is displayed as a list.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the specific location is set to at least one of an upper left part or a lower right part of the screen in a top page in which the selection part of the function installed in the device is displayed as a list.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit controls the screen of the device by transmitting layout information, which prescribes a layout of the screen of the device, through the communication line with respect to the device in which the designation of the display location of the selection part of the function is not performed through an operation through contact.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where a plurality of the devices are connected to the communication line, the control unit controls screens of the respective devices such that selection parts of functions are respectively displayed in display locations, in which designations are received in the reception unit, on the screens of the respective devices.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the control unit controls the screens of the respective devices such that the selection parts of the functions are displayed in a common display location of the screens of the respective devices.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the reception unit receives the designations of the display locations, in which the selection parts of the functions are displayed, for respective models of the devices, and

wherein the control unit controls the screens for the respective models of the devices such that the selection parts of the functions are displayed in the display locations in which designations are received in the reception unit.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an information processing program causing a computer to function as respective units of the information processing apparatus according to claim 1.