Display terminal, displaying method, and recording medium

• US 9,027,018 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takebe, Akio, Shimogawa, Kenichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Puente, Emerson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huaracha, Willy W
• Application Number:
  US12/984,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: 718/1, 718/108, 718/100
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45545 Guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself, e.g. VirtualBox

Abstract

A master selecting unit selects master software from pieces of software that perform a computing process. A screen control unit displays an operation screen for the master software that is selected by the master selecting unit on a screen. A software search unit searches, when an instruction operation is detected on the operation screen for the master software, for any piece of software that displays an operation screen that receives the same instruction operation that the operation screen for the master software receives. An operation-content instructing unit instructs the master software and each piece of software that is found by the software search unit about operation content corresponding to the instruction operation that has been detected on the operation screen for the master software.

Claims

1. A display terminal comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory,

wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

displaying a plurality of operation screens to each information processing apparatus thereto connected;

first receiving a selection of a master operation screen in the plurality of the operation screens;

second receiving a selection of a sub operation screen in the plurality of the operation screens, the sub operation screen corresponding to the master operation screen;

third receiving a setting of an operation mode in which an instruction operation to the master operation screen is notified to the sub operation screen; and

in the case of receiving the setting of the operation mode, first instructing the sub operation screen about the instruction operation to the master operation screen and nullifying the instruction operation to the sub operation screen,

wherein the first instructing includes;

comparing the master operation screen with the sub operation screen in the case of detecting the instruction operation on the master operation screen; and

identifying, in accordance with a comparison result obtained by the comparing and a position of the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen, a relative position corresponding to the instruction operation on the sub operation screen, mapping to the relative position the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen, and second instructing the sub operation screen about the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen.

2. The display terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the first instructing includes displaying a nullification of the instruction operation in the case of nullifying the instruction operation to the sub operation screen.

3. The display terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the third receiving includes receiving a setting of an individual operation mode not to associate the instruction operation to the master operation screen with the instruction operation to the sub operation screen;

and

the first instructing instructs the sub operation screen about the instruction operation to the sub operation screen in the case of receiving the setting of the individual operation mode.

4. The display terminal according to claim 1,

wherein, in a virtual-machine environment that includes the plurality of operation screens and a host software that controls the plurality of the operation screens, when the host software detects the instruction operation from the first instructing, the host software causes a corresponding software to perform a process corresponding to the instruction operation as the instruction operation of the sub operation screen.

5. The display terminal according to claim 4,

wherein the host software includes:

memorizing accessible operation screen in association with an identification information being information for identifying the display terminal, the display terminal being able to instruct the accessible operation screen about the instruction operation; and

acquiring, when detecting a request for access to a target operation screen from the display terminal, the identification information of the display terminal and determining whether the target operation screen is accordant with the accessible operation screen corresponding to the identification information of the target operation screen,

wherein the first instructing permits an access to the target operation screen from the display terminal in the case of determining that the target operation screen is accordant with the accessible operation screen, and the first instructing denies the access to the target operation screen from the display terminal in the case of determining that the target operation screen is not accordant with the accessible operation screen.

6. A displaying method of a display terminal displaying a plurality of operation screens to each information processing apparatus thereto connected, the displaying method comprising:

first receiving a selection of a master operation screen in the plurality of the operation screens;

second receiving a selection of a sub operation screen in the plurality of the operation screens, the sub operation screen corresponding to the master operation screen;

third receiving a setting of an operation mode in which an instruction operation to the master operation screen is notified to the sub operation screen; and

in the case of receiving the setting of the operation mode, first instructing the sub operation screen about the instruction operation to the master operation screen and nullifying the instruction operation to the sub operation screen,

wherein the first instructing includes;

comparing the master operation screen with the sub operation screen in the case of detecting the instruction operation on the master operation screen; and

identifying, in accordance with a comparison result obtained by the comparing and a position of the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen, a relative position corresponding to the instruction operation on the sub operation screen, mapping to the relative position the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen, and second instructing the sub operation screen about the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen.

7. A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing a displaying program that causes a computer having a display for displaying a plurality of operation screens to each information processing apparatus thereto connected, to execute a process comprising:

first receiving a selection of a master operation screen in the plurality of the operation screens;

second receiving a selection of a sub operation screen in the plurality of the operation screens, the sub operation screen corresponding to the master operation screen;

third receiving a setting of an operation mode in which an instruction operation to the master operation screen is notified to the sub operation screen; and

in the case of receiving the setting of the operation mode, first instructing the sub operation screen about the instruction operation to the master operation screen and nullifying the instruction operation to the sub operation screen,

wherein the first instructing includes;

comparing the master operation screen with the sub operation screen in the case of detecting the instruction operation on the master operation screen; and

identifying, in accordance with a comparison result obtained by the comparing and a position of the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen, a relative position corresponding to the instruction operation on the sub operation screen, mapping to the relative position the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen, and second instructing the sub operation screen about the instruction operation that has been detected on the master operation screen.