Manager Setting Application for Cross-UI Print Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information processing apparatuses with both desktop UI and touch panel UI environments face challenges in reflecting manager settings and prompting necessary input, leading to difficulties in executing printing tasks due to unrecognized password input requirements.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a manager setting application that shares settings between desktop and touch panel UIs, displaying popups for required input fields, and saving settings to ensure consistency and prevent forgotten inputs across both UI environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate print setting applications are developed for desktop UI and touch panel UI environments, then each UI environment can have its own optimized interface, but manager settings cannot be shared between the two UI environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal manager setting application that functions across both desktop UI and touch panel UI environments. The manager setting application stores settings in a common storage location that can be accessed by both print setting applications, enabling settings to be shared universally across different UI environments without requiring separate development for each platform.
2Ease of operation
If the driver UI does not display password input screens during printing, then the interface remains simple, but password input requirements set through manager settings are not recognized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the print setting application checks manager settings before executing printing operations. When a password input requirement is set through the manager setting application, the print setting application detects this setting and displays an appropriate input screen or popup during the printing process, providing feedback to the user about the required input while maintaining the simplicity of the overall interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The manager setting application performs preliminary configuration by setting password input requirements before the actual printing operation. These settings are stored and then retrieved by the print setting application during execution, allowing the system to prepare and recognize input requirements in advance without complicating the user interface.
3Reliability
If popup prompts are displayed for all input requirements, then users are reminded to enter necessary information, but the user interface becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies popup display locally and selectively rather than universally. The print setting application checks specific manager settings and displays popup prompts only for those particular input items that require user input. This localized approach ensures that popups are shown only where necessary, maintaining input completion reliability while avoiding unnecessary interface complexity.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a manager setting application configured to perform a manager setting requiring an input to a predetermined item of a print setting; a first print setting application executed on a first execution environment; and a second print setting application executed on a second execution environment. If the manager setting application performs the manager setting requiring the input to the predetermined item of the print setting and there is no input to the predetermined item requiring the input, the first print setting application and the second print setting application display a screen for prompting the input to the predetermined item.