Job Processing Apparatus User-Specific Notification Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image forming apparatuses fail to exclusively notify users about successfully and unsuccessful job storage, leading to confusion regarding job status associated with user information.
Innovation Solution
A job processing apparatus with a first storing unit for user-associated jobs, a second storing unit for identification information of unsuccessful job storage, and a notification unit that informs users of unsuccessful job storage upon login, ensuring users are notified only about their own job status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional notification methods are used, then general job storage status can be notified, but user-specific job storage status cannot be exclusively notified
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into user-specific notifications. The notification unit sends individual notifications to each user based on their login information, ensuring that each user receives only notifications about their own jobs. This resolves the contradiction by dividing the general notification system into user-specific segments, enabling accurate user-specific job storage status notifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by storing identification information of users with unsuccessful job storage in a second storage unit, and the notification unit retrieves this information upon user login to provide targeted feedback. This feedback mechanism ensures that users receive accurate information about their specific job storage status, resolving the information loss while maintaining notification accuracy.
2Loss of information
If conventional notification methods are used, then general job information can be notified, but user-associated job information cannot be exclusively notified
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system segments job information by user association. The notification unit identifies which jobs are associated with the logged-in user and notifies only those specific jobs. This segmentation approach enables exclusive notification of user-associated job information without requiring complex system-wide changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification unit acts as an intermediary between the storage units and users. It retrieves job information from the first storage unit, filters it based on user association using the second storage unit, and delivers only relevant information to the appropriate user. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system complexity while enabling precise user-specific notifications.
3Reliability
If job storage status is tracked for all users, then comprehensive job monitoring is achieved, but notification accuracy for individual users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments job storage tracking by creating user-specific notification records in the second storage unit. Each user's job storage status is tracked separately with their identification information, enabling both comprehensive monitoring across all users and precise accuracy for individual users. The notification unit then retrieves only the relevant user-specific records.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements targeted feedback by storing and retrieving user-specific job storage status information. When a user logs in, the notification unit provides feedback only about that user's jobs, ensuring high measurement precision for individual users while maintaining reliable tracking of all user jobs through the centralized second storage unit.
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AI summary
In a case where a job associated with a user has not been successfully stored in a job processing apparatus, it is not possible to exclusively notify the user that the job has not been successfully stored. A control method in a job processing apparatus includes storing a job such that the job is associated with a user, storing, identification information for identifying the user associated with a job that has not been successfully stored, and notifying the user that the job has not been stored according to login to the job processing apparatus, by the user, in a case where identification information for identifying the user having logged in to the job processing apparatus has been stored.