Unified Job Re-execution Interface for Multi-Screen History Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing job execution devices lack user convenience in switching between and displaying multiple operation screens, limiting their effectiveness in managing job histories and re-execution functionalities.
Innovation Solution
A job execution device with a display unit, storage unit, and controller that stores and displays two distinct history groups for jobs executed on different screens, allowing users to re-execute jobs from a single screen, enhancing user convenience by integrating re-execution instructions for both screen-based job groups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate history groups are maintained for different screens, then job history management becomes more organized, but user convenience deteriorates due to the need to switch between screens for re-execution
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality to re-execute jobs from both the first screen and second screen into a single unified interface. The controller integrates job history data from multiple screens and presents a consolidated re-execution menu, allowing users to access and re-execute jobs without switching between screens, thus resolving the contradiction between organized history management and user convenience
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple operation screens are provided for different job types, then functional versatility is improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple interfaces to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal re-execution interface that can handle jobs from multiple different screens through a single unified menu system. This multi-functional approach allows the same interface to manage re-execution for various job types and screens, reducing the need for separate re-execution mechanisms for each screen and thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining versatility
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AI summary
A job execution device includes a display unit, a storage unit that stores a first history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a first home screen, and a second history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a second home screen different from the first home screen, and a controller that display a display screen including the first home screen and the second home screen on the display unit, wherein the first home screen includes a first object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a first job that was executed, the first job being included in the first history group, and a second object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a second job that was executed, the second job being included in the second history group.