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US 10,477,046 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus for determining a priority order for display of user authentication icons
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Tsuchitoi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus acquires an evaluation value of each user by using a combination of a plurality of criteria determined on the basis of usage history information, and determines priority order of users having a high possibility of using the image forming apparatus next time based on the acquired evaluation value.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- one or more memories storing instructions;
- and
- one or more processors that, upon executing the instructions, configures the one or more processors to:
- manage usage history information about the image forming apparatus for each user;
- determine an evaluation value for each user based on the usage history information using a plurality of different types of evaluation criteria applied to the usage history information, each evaluation criteria having unique weighting values applied thereto, and to determine a priority order based on the determined evaluation value that predicts which users will use the image forming apparatus next time;
- and
- cause display of an authentication icon of each user on a log-in screen based on the priority order,
- wherein the unique weighting value applied to each evaluation criteria is corrected based on determined priority order for a selected authentication icon when authentication operation is executed through the log-in screen.
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A control method of an image forming apparatus comprising:
- managing usage history information about the image forming apparatus for each user;
- determining an evaluation value for each user based on the usage history information, using a plurality of different types of evaluation criteria applied to the usage history information each evaluation criteria having unique weighting values applied thereto, and determining a priority order based on the determined evaluation value that predicts which users will use the image forming apparatus next time;
- displaying an authentication icon of each user on a log-in screen based on the priority order;
- and
- correcting the unique weighting value applied to each evaluation criteria based on determined priority order for a selected authentication icon when authentication operation is executed through the log-in screen.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes an image forming apparatus to execute a method, the method comprising:
- managing usage history information about the image forming apparatus for each user;
- determining an evaluation value for each user based on the usage history information using a plurality of different types of evaluation criteria applied to the usage history information, each evaluation criteria having unique weighting values applied thereto, and determining a priority order based on the determined evaluation value that predicts which users will use the image forming apparatus next time;
- displaying an authentication icon of each user on a log-in screen based on the priority order;
- and
- correcting the unique weighting value applied to each evaluation criteria based on determined priority order for a selected authentication icon when authentication operation is executed through the log-in screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.