Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-14
2003-07-01
Cabeca, John (Department: 2173)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
C710S008000, C358S001130
Reexamination Certificate
active
06587126
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and to a method for displaying a list of stored jobs to enable the confirmation, or to permit the changing, of a job, as well as to a storage medium on which such a program is stored.
2. Related Background Art
A conventional information processing apparatus displays a list of the names of files that are stored, and edits or prints a selected file. On the list, not only are file names displayed, but also the sizes and the creation dates of the files. To print a file, a printer on a network is designated for the transmission thereto of a printing instruction. For the transmission of data, a transmission source and a transmission time are set. Further, the same file may be printed and transmitted.
Conventionally, however, when a plurality of processes, such as printing and transmission, are to be performed for stored information, the information is not managed in correlation with either the processing type or the processing setup.
Further, during the transmission process, information stored in a transmission source apparatus is transmitted to a transmission destination apparatus. Therefore, when a user of a specific apparatus desires to transmit information available at a different device to another different destination apparatus, the information must first be transmitted from the specified source apparatus to the user's apparatus, which then transmits the received information to the destination apparatus. For printing, a printing instruction, accompanied with print data, is issued by an apparatus, such as a computer, to a printer. Therefore, the printer cannot store or manage print information, and it cannot select and print information that is stored in a host computer or another printer.
In addition, an apparatus that a plurality of users can employ, or an apparatus that can access a resource that can be used in common by a plurality of users, examines identification information entered by a user before it will permit the user to employ the apparatus. In this manner, it is possible to prevent an unauthorized user from employing the apparatus, or to restrict usage of a function that is available at the apparatus in accordance with the level of a user. For a user who stores in an apparatus object information to be processed, the purpose for using the apparatus would be the confirmation, the deletion or the correction of the information rather than the setup and the execution of a new process. For a user who does not store in the apparatus object information to be processed, such confirmation is meaningless, and the setup and the execution of a new process is required.
However, the procedures employed for the use of a conventional apparatus are essentially the same for users, regardless of whether they have stored object information to be processed, although, depending on the user, some procedures may differ due to the above described restriction placed on the use of functions.
Computer are conventionally employed to exchange e-mail, to manage files and to schedule information. Typically, a software application for handling mail notifies a user of the arrival of new mail. However, the user must activate the mail software application to ascertain what mail was received, and must select and open specific mail to read the contents of the mail. Personal information concerning a user, such as mail or a schedule, is managed by a user's computer, and can not be controlled by another apparatus. Furthermore, when storing a file, a user must create a plurality of folders, and must issue an instruction or perform an operation to designate the folder in which the file is to be stored. Thus, it is sometimes difficult to locate the folder in which a file is stored. In addition, conventionally, files and mail are independently managed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is, therefore, one objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method that render the relationship existing between object information to be processed and a process type easy to understand.
It is another objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method that through the employment of an easy operation make it possible to process information stored in another apparatus in the same manner as is information stored in a local apparatus.
It is an additional objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for easily changing the setup of, or for adding, a process for specific information.
It is a further objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method, in accordance with the status of a user, for easily changing a setup or for performing a new setup for a process for information.
It is still another objective of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method that render the management of mail and files less difficult than conventional apparatuses and methods.
To achieve the above objectives, according to one aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus comprises:
execution means for performing a process;
object information storage means for storing, together with a corresponding identification name and process type, object information to be processed; and
display means for displaying, together with the identification names and the process types that are stored in the object information storage means, a list of object information to be processed.
According to one more aspect of the present invention, an information processing method comprises:
an execution step of performing a process; and
a display step of displaying a list of object information to be processed, together with identification names and process types that are stored in an object information storage unit, which stores object information to be processed together with a corresponding identification name and process type.
According to another aspect of the present invention, provided is a storage medium on which is stored a program, which comprises:
an execution step of performing a process; and
a display step of displaying a list of object information to be processed, together with identification names and process types that are stored in an object information storage unit, which stores object information to be processed together with a corresponding identification name and process type.
According to an additional aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus comprises:
object information storage means for storing object information to be processed;
apparatus selection means for selecting a local apparatus or a different apparatus as an apparatus whereat is present the object information to be processed;
display means for, when the local apparatus is selected by the apparatus selection means, displaying a list of object information stored in the object information storage means, and for, when the different apparatus is selected, accessing the selected apparatus to display a list of object information stored in the different apparatus;
information selection means for selecting object information from the list displayed by the display means; and
processing means for processing the object information that is selected by the information selection means.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, an information processing method comprises:
an apparatus selection step of selecting a local apparatus or a different apparatus as an apparatus whereat is present object information to be processed;
a display step of, when the local apparatus is selected by the apparatus selection means, displaying a list of object information stored in an object information storage unit for storing the object information, and of, when the different apparatus is selected, accessing the selected apparatus to display a list of object information stored in the different apparatus;
an information selection step of selecting object information from the list displayed at the display step; and
a processing step of processing
Fujii Ken-ichi
Ibaraki Shouichi
Jeyachandran Suresh
Rohra Suda Aruna
Takahashi Satomi
Cabeca John
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Fitzpatrick ,Cella, Harper & Scinto
Hailu Tadesse
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