Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium for displaying live tile contents while performing switching thereof

• US 9,025,184 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2013
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kikuchi, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): REINIER, BARBARA DIANE
• Application Number:
  US13/891,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20130301071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 358 112- 117, 358/1.1, 358/1.9, 358/1.5, 715/713, 715734-737, 715853-854, 719/321, 719/327, 710/9, 710/10, 710/15, 710/19
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• 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 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1293 Printer information exchange with computer

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to add a first live tile content including printer information about a first print queue and a second live tile content including printer information about a second print queue different from the first print queue to a tile list that is gathering for specifying a live tile content displayed by an operating system, wherein the first print queue and the second print queue are each associated with a same application. The operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in a tile display region according to the tile list and to display the second live tile content in the tile display region in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed, and the application is launched when a user specifies the tile display region.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a control unit configured to add a first live tile content including printer information about a first print queue and a second live tile content including printer information about a second print queue different from the first print queue to a tile list that is gathering for specifying a live tile content displayed by an operating system,

wherein the first print queue and the second print queue are each associated with a same application,

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in a tile display region, according to the tile list, and to display the second live tile content in the tile display region, according to the tile list, in place of the first live tile content by replacing the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed,

wherein display of print queues from the tile list is based on live tile contents of problematic print queues,

wherein the control unit is configured to, when it is determined that importance of a status of the printer information about the first print queue is higher than a status of the printer information about the second print queue, specify, to the operating system, a display order of the first live tile content prior to a display order of the second live tile content, and

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in the tile display region after a home screen including the tile display region is displayed, and display the second live tile content in the tile display region in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to generate the first live tile content based on the printer information about the first print queue and the second live tile content based on the printer information about the second print queue.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, after generating the first live tile content of a first status including the printer information about the first print queue and adding the first live tile content to the tile list, when receiving from the operating system a notification indicating that the status of the first print queue is changed to a second status different from the first status, generate a third live tile content of the second status including the printer information about the first print queue, and update the first live tile content with the third live tile content.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, when receiving from the operating system a notification indicating that the first print queue is generated, generate the first live tile content and add the first live tile content to the tile list.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, when a status of the printer information about the first print queue indicates an error and a status of the printer information about the second print queue indicates normal, specify, to the operating system, a longer first display time for the first live tile content than a second display time for the second live tile content, and

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in the tile display region, display the second live tile content in the tile display region after the first display time elapses, and display a live tile content next to the second live tile content after the second display time elapses.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the printer information includes one or more of a name of the print queue, an icon of a peripheral device corresponding to the print queue, and the status information about the print queue.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, when a status of the printer information about the first print queue indicates an error and a status of the printer information about the second print queue indicates normal, add the first live tile content to the tile list without adding the second live tile content to the tile list, and

wherein the operating system is configured not to display the second live tile content in the tile display region.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, when a status of the printer information about the first print queue indicates an error and a status of the printer information about the second print queue indicates normal, add the second live tile content to the tile list without adding the first live tile content thereto, and

wherein the operating system is configured not to display the first live tile content in the tile display region.

9. A control method comprising:

performing control to add a first live tile content including printer information about a first print queue and a second live tile content including printer information about a second print queue different from the first print queue to a tile list that is gathering for specifying a live tile content displayed by an operating system,

wherein the first print queue and the second print queue are each associated with a same application,

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in a tile display region, according to the tile list, and to display the second live tile content in the tile display region, according to the tile list, in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed,

wherein display of print queues from the tile list is based on live tile contents of problematic print queues, and

when it is determined that importance of a status of the printer information about the first print queue is higher than a status of the printer information about the second print queue, specifying, to the operating system, a display order of the first live tile content prior to a display order of the second live tile content,

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in the tile display region after a home screen including the tile display region is displayed, and display the second live tile content in the tile display region in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed.

10. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the performing control generates the first live tile content based on the printer information about the first print queue and the second live tile content based on the printer information about the second print queue.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, after generating the first live tile content of a first status including the printer information about the first print queue and adding the first live tile content to the tile list, when receiving from the operating system a notification indicating that the status of the first print queue is changed to a second status different from the first status, the performing control generates a third live tile content of the second status including the printer information about the first print queue, and updating the first live tile content with the third live tile content.

12. The control method according to claim 9, when receiving from the operating system a notification indicating that the first print queue is generated, the performing control generates the first live tile content and adds the first live tile content to the tile list.

13. The control method according to claim 9, when a status of the printer information about the first print queue indicates an error and a status of the printer information about the second print queue indicates normal, the performing control specifies, to the operating system, a longer first display time for the first live tile content than a second display time for the second live tile content,

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in the tile display region, display the second live tile content in the tile display region after the first display time elapses, and display a live tile content next to the second live tile content after the second display time elapses.

14. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the printer information includes one or more of a name of the print queue, an icon of a peripheral device corresponding to the print queue, and the status information about the print queue.

15. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the operating system is configured not to display the second live tile content in the tile display region.

16. The control method according to claim 9, when a status of the printer information about the first print queue indicates an error and a status of the printer information about the second print queue indicates normal, the performing control adds the second live tile content to the tile list without adding the first live tile content thereto,

wherein the operating system is configured not to display the first live tile content in the tile display region.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

performing control to add a first live tile content including printer information about a first print queue and a second live tile content including printer information about a second print queue different from the first print queue to a tile list that is gathering for specifying a live tile content displayed by an operating system,

wherein the first print queue and the second print queue are each associated with a same application,

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in a tile display region, according to the tile list, and to display the second live tile content in the tile display region, according to the tile list, in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed,

wherein display of print queues from the tile list is based on live tile contents of problematic print queues, and

when it is determined that importance of a status of the printer information about the first print queue is higher than a status of the printer information about the second print queue, specifying, to the operating system, a display order of the first live tile content prior to a display order of the second live tile content,

wherein the operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in the tile display region after a home screen including the tile display region is displayed, and display the second live tile content in the tile display region in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed.