Information processing apparatus and display control method

• US 8,261,123 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2010
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Daijiro
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, KAMINI B
• Application Number:
  US12/683,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20100180164A1
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• Field of Search: 714/44
• US Class Current: 714/5.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/32 with visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3219 of a job status, e.g. successful execution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

An information processing apparatus which manages a document file to be stored includes a creating unit for creating an output job which is output to an image forming apparatus according to an instruction to an icon of the document file displayed on a display unit, a job management unit for managing the output job by relating a job ID for identifying the output job to a file ID of the document file when the output job is created by the creating unit, an acquirement unit for acquiring from the image forming apparatus the job ID of the output job in which processing ends in error, and a first display control unit for changing an icon display state of an a document file including a file ID specified by the job ID acquired by the acquirement unit and the job ID managed by the management unit, from a normal display state to an error display state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus which manages a plurality of document files stored in a memory, the information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one processor coupled via a bus to a memory, the processor being programmed to control one or more of;

a display control unit configured to control to display icons corresponding to the plurality of document files on a display unit;

an output control unit configured to convert, when an output instruction is requested for one of the icons displayed on the display unit, the document file of the requested icon into rendering commands, and to send the rendering commands to a driver; and

an output document management unit configured to manage a job information list that stores information which relates a file ID of the document file which is converted by the output control unit with a job ID of an output job to be created based on the rendering command by the driver, and to receive job state information from a job controlling service which monitors the output job,

wherein, when the output document management unit receives the job state information indicating that an output process for the output job ends in error state, the display control unit changes an icon display state of the icon of the document file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID of which the job state information is in the error state, from a normal display state to an error display state.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit configured to set a condition in which the icon display state of the icon of the document file is changed from the error display state to the normal display state.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the setting unit sets, as the condition, either one of a first mode in which the error display state is changed to the normal display state when the icon of the document file of the error display state is designated or a second mode in which the error display state is changed to the normal display state when the document file of the error display state is output again and results in a normal termination, and wherein the display control unit changes the icon display state of the document file from the error display state to the normal display state according to the first mode or the second mode set by the setting unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the icon of the document file is an icon of a shortcut file which refers to an entity file of the document file.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display control unit changes the icon display states of an icon of the shortcut file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID of which the job state information is in the error state and the icon of the document file that the shortcut file refers to, from the normal display state to the error display state.

6. An information processing apparatus which manages a plurality of document files stored in a folder, the information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one processor coupled via a bus to a memory, the processor being programmed to control one or more of;

a display control unit configured to control to display icons corresponding to the plurality of document files and icons corresponding to the folder on a display unit;

an output control unit configured to convert, when an output instruction is requested for one of the icons of the document files displayed on the display unit, the document file of the requested icon into rendering commands, and to send the rendering commands to a driver; and

an output document management unit configured to manage a job information list that stores information which relates a file ID of the document file which is converted by the output control unit with a job ID of an output job to be created based on the rendering command by the driver, and to receive job state information from a job controlling service which monitors the output job,

wherein, when the output document management unit receives the job state information indicating that an output process for the output job ends in error state, the display control unit changes at least one of an icon display state of the icon of the document file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID being in the error state and an icon display state of the icon of the folder which stores the document file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID being in the error state, from a normal display state to an error display state.

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

a determination unit configured to determine, when the output document management unit receives the job state information of the job ID from the job controlling service, whether the icon of the document file corresponding to the received job ID is displayed on the display unit,

wherein the display control unit changes the icon display state of the folder which stores the document file, from the normal display state to the error display state when the determination unit determines that the document file corresponding to the received job ID is not displayed on the display unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a setting unit configured to set a condition in which the icon display states of the icon of the document file and the icon of the folder are changed from the error display state to the normal display state, wherein the display control unit changes the icon display states of the icon of the document file and the icon of the folder, from the error display state to the normal display state according to the condition set by the setting unit.

9. A method for controlling a display in an information processing apparatus which manages a plurality of document files stored in a memory, the method comprising:

controlling to display icons corresponding to the plurality of document files, by a display control unit, on a display unit;

converting, by an output control unit, when an output instruction is requested for one of the icons displayed on the display unit, the document file of the requested icon into rendering commands, and sending the rendering commands to a driver; and

managing, by an output document management unit, a job information list that stores information which relates a file ID of the document file which is converted by the output control unit with a job ID of an output job to be created based on the rendering command by the driver, and receiving job state information from a job controlling service which monitors the output job,

wherein, when the output document management unit receives the job state information indicating that an output process for the output job ends in error state, the controlling step changes an icon display state of the icon of the document file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID of which the job state information is in the error state, from a normal display state to an error display state.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising setting a condition which changes the icon display state of the icon of the document file from the error display state to the normal display state.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising setting, as a condition, either one of a first mode in which the error display state is changed to the normal display state when the icon of the document file of the error display state is designated or a second mode in which the error display state is changed to the normal display state when the document file of the error display state is output again and results in a normal termination, and wherein the controlling step changes the icon display state of the document file from the error display state to the normal display state according to the first mode or the second mode set by the setting unit.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the icon of the document file is an icon of a shortcut file which refers to an entity file of the document file.

13. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to execute a method according to claim 9.

14. A method for controlling a display in an information processing apparatus which manages a plurality of document files to be stored in a folder, the method comprising:

controlling to display icons corresponding to the plurality of document files and icons corresponding to the folder, by a display control unit, on a display unit;

converting, by an output control unit, when an output instruction is requested for one of the icons of the document files displayed on the display unit, the document file of the requested icon into rendering commands, and sending the rendering commands to a driver; and

managing, by an output document management unit, a job information list that stores information which relates a file ID of the document file which is converted by the output control unit with a job ID of an output job to be created based on the rendering command by the driver, and receiving job state information from a job controlling service which monitors the output job,

wherein, when the output document management unit receives the job state information indicating that an output process for the output job ends in error state, the controlling step changes at least one of an icon display state of the icon of the document file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID being in the error state and an icon display state of the icon of the folder which stores the document file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID being in the error state, from a normal display state to an error display state.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

determining when the output document management unit receives the job state information of the job ID from the job controlling service, whether the icon of the document file corresponding to the received job ID is displayed on the display unit; and

changing the icon display state of the folder which stores the document file, from the normal display state to the error display state when it is determined that the document file corresponding to the received job ID is not displayed on the display unit.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising changing the icon display states of an icon of the shortcut file corresponding to the file ID which is specified by the job ID of which the job state information is in the error state and the icon of the document file that the shortcut file refers to, from the normal display state to the error display state.

17. The method according to claim 14, further comprising setting a condition in which the icon display states of the icon of the document file and the icon of the folder are changed from the error display state to the normal display state, wherein the controlling step changes the icon display states of the icon of the document file and the icon of the folder, from the error display state to the normal display state according to the condition set by the setting step.

18. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to execute a method according to claim 14.