Automatic determination of operator training level for displaying appropriate operator prompts

• US 5,204,968 A
• Filed: 03/27/1989
• Issued: 04/20/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Parthasarathi, Aanand
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coleman, Eric
• Application Number:
  US07/328,975
• Time in Patent Office: 1,485 Days
• Field of Search: 364/200, 364/900, 395/425, 395/155, 395/156, 395/157, 395/158, 395/159, 395/160, 395/161, 395/800, 434/323, 434/118, 434/176
• US Class Current: 715/707
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/00 Simulators for teaching or training purposes for the use of weapons F41; computing aspects G06; protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

A method of automatically altering the messages for prompting an operator, depending upon the level of operator training, in a reproduction machine having a control and user interface with display including the steps of programming the machine at a first level, recognizing the programming of the machine at the first level to represent either trained or untrained operator programming, responding to the recognition of either trained or untrained operator programming at the first level for providing either a trained sequence of operator prompts or an untrained sequence of operator prompts, programming the machine at a second level after completion of the programming at the first level, recognizing the programming of the machine at the second level to be either trained or untrained operator programming, and responding to the recognition of either trained or untrained operator programming at the second level for providing either a trained sequence of operator prompts or an untrained sequence of operator prompts.

Claims

1. In a reproduction machine having a control including a user interface with display for providing a hierarchy of operator prompts for programming the operation of the machine, each level of the hierarchy of prompts providing either a corresponding first sequence of prompts for a first category of prompts or a second sequence of prompts for a second category of prompts, the method of automatically altering the prompting of the operator comprising the machine implemented steps of:

programming the machine by the operator at a first level,

automatically recognizing the programming of the machine by the control at the first level to be either first category or second category operator programming,

responding to the recognition of either first category or second category operator programming at the first level for providing either first category operator prompt or second category operator prompt,

programming the machine by the operator at a second level after completion of the programming at the first level,

automatically recognizing the programming of the machine by the control at the second level to be either first category or second category operator programming, and

responding to the recognition of either first category or second category operator programming at the second level for providing either a first category operator prompt or a second category operator prompt whereby the relative training of the operator determines the type of prompt provided.

2. In a reproduction machine having a control including a user interface with display for programming the machine and providing operator prompts via said display for hierarchical two levels of operator programming, each said level operator programming having a corresponding first sequence and second sequence of operator prompts, the machine recognizing a standard format of operator programming at one of said first level and second level for providing a corresponding first sequence of operator prompts, the method of selectively providing a corresponding second sequence of operator prompts comprising the machine implemented steps of:

recognizing by the control one of the first level and the second level operator programming from the programming of the machine inputted via said user interface,

recognizing by the control a deviation from the programming of the machine in said standard format at said recognized level,

responding to the recognition of the deviation from the standard format programming at said recognized level, and

providing said second sequence of operator prompts via said display at said recognized level of operator programming.

3. The machine of claim 2 including the step of recognizing a deviation from the operator programming of the machine at a second level of operator programming, and responding to the recognition of the deviation of programming at said second level to provide said second sequence of operator prompts.