Image Job Processing With Authenticated Portable Storage Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image processing systems require users to wait for long periods during scan jobs due to the need to detach and reattach external memory, leading to uncertainty about processing completion, potential loss of data, and inefficient job execution.

Innovation Solution

Implement a job processing device with user authentication, job execution, and controller management to notify users of processing status and control deliverable output to portable storage, ensuring secure and convenient job processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users detach and reattach external memory during scan jobs, then security of image data transfer is enhanced, but user wait time increases and convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity of image data transferVSAvoiduser wait time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary authentication of the user before the scan job completes, and prepares the notification mechanism in advance. When the user reattaches the external memory, the system immediately checks authentication status and notifies the user of job completion without requiring additional waiting time, thus resolving the contradiction between security (requiring authentication) and convenience (minimizing wait time).

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If users detach external memory after acquisition of deliverable, then portability and flexibility are improved, but risk of data loss increases due to uncertainty about processing completion

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveportability and flexibilityVSAvoiddata safety

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides feedback to the user by notifying them of job completion status when the external memory is reattached. This feedback mechanism allows users to confirm that processing is complete before detaching the memory, eliminating the uncertainty about processing completion while maintaining the flexibility and portability of using detachable external memory.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If the system notifies users of processing status only when external memory is reattached, then security is maintained, but user convenience deteriorates due to lack of real-time information

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoiduser convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows users to autonomously determine when to reattach their external memory based on their own schedules and needs. The notification is provided automatically when the memory is reattached, eliminating the need for continuous monitoring or system-initiated contact. This self-service approach maintains security by requiring memory reattachment while improving convenience by giving users control over when they retrieve their data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20250328295A1Job processing device, image processing apparatus, and job processing method

Publication Date: 2025.10.23 SHARP KK

AI summary

A job processing device includes an authenticator that authenticates login of a user, an executor that executes a job on the basis of an execution instruction from the user authenticated, and one or more controllers that control output of a deliverable resulting from execution of the job to a portable storage medium. The one or more controllers, when the deliverable is acquired via the portable storage medium and a logged-in user is the same as the user providing the execution instruction of the job, notify the user of a processing status of the job in the executor.