Job Interruption Notification Controller for Electronic Apparatus
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Solution Overview
Problem
In existing systems, users are not notified of job interruptions, leading to prolonged waiting times and unawareness of job completion, which degrades user efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus with an input unit for terminal device address information, a data communication unit, and a controller that decides on job interruption notification, transmitting interruption data to designated terminal devices when a job is interrupted.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system only notifies job completion to terminal devices, then the notification system is simple, but users are not informed of job interruptions, leading to prolonged waiting times and degraded user efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The system stores notification target information in advance, designating which terminal devices should receive interruption notifications before jobs are executed. When an interruption occurs, the controller can immediately notify the pre-designated terminal device, eliminating the need for users to continuously check the apparatus and reducing information loss while minimizing time loss.
2Loss of information
If the system transmits interruption data to all terminal devices, then complete information is provided, but communication overhead and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different notification behaviors to different terminal devices based on stored notification target information. Only terminal devices designated as notification targets receive interruption notifications, while others do not. This localized approach ensures complete information delivery to relevant users without the overhead of notifying all terminal devices, balancing information completeness with system simplicity.
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AI summary
An electronic apparatus includes an operation unit or a terminal device for inputting address information of the terminal device of a user who instructed execution of a job, and notification target information indicating whether the terminal device is a notification target to which an interruption of the job is to be notified, a network interface unit that performs data communication with a plurality of the terminal devices, and a controller that decides, when an interruption of the job is detected, whether the terminal device is the notification target, according to the notification target information, and causes the network interface unit to transmit interruption data indicating that the job has been interrupted to the terminal device, using the address information of the terminal device, when the terminal device is the notification target.