Data processing apparatus, data processing method of data processing apparatus, and computer-readable memory medium storing program therein

• US 7,827,493 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2007
• Issued: 11/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sano, Tetsji, Konishi, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cao
• Application Number:
  US11/839,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20080022221A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• Field of Search: 715/711, 715/714, 715735-738, 715/747, 715/707, 715/732, 715/805, 715/741
• 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. A data processing apparatus, comprising:

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

wherein said second display control unit controls displaying such that a plurality of sheet sizes which the first or second image forming apparatus is able to store are displayed, and such that one of the plurality of sheet sizes currently set in the first or second image forming apparatus is displayed distinguishably from the rest of the plurality of sheet sizes.

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

3. A method for a data processing apparatus, comprising:

a first display control step of controlling display of a first object of a first image forming apparatus and a second object of a second image forming apparatus; and

a second display control step of controlling displaying such that, when a cursor is overlapping the first object, the 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,

wherein said second display control step controls displaying such that a plurality of sheet sizes which the first or second image forming apparatus is able to store are displayed, and such that one of the plurality of sheet sizes currently set in the first or second image forming apparatus is displayed distinguishably from the rest of the plurality of sheet sizes.

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

5. A computer-readable medium storing a computer program for a data processing apparatus, comprising:

a first display control step of controlling display of a first object of a first image forming apparatus and a second object of a second image forming apparatus; and

a second display control step of 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,

wherein said second display control step controls displaying, such that a plurality of sheet sizes which the first or second image forming apparatus is able to store are displayed, and such that one of the plurality of sheet sizes currently set in the first or second image forming apparatus is displayed distinguishably from the rest of the plurality of sheet sizes.

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