Work form sharing
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHyeong Ju Kim, Jung Mo Hong, Yong Goo Chung, Chang Wook Yoon
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including a user interface device, a communication interface, a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor is provided. The processor may execute the instructions stored in the memory to, when an additional application that is not a default application basically installed in the image forming apparatus is included in a workform that is to be shared with an external apparatus, the workform being selected via the user interface device, transmit, to the external apparatus via the communication interface, installation file information of the additional application with the workform that is to be shared.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a user interface device;
- a communication interface;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, wherein, when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to, when an additional application that is not a default application installed in the image forming apparatus is comprised in a workform to be shared with an external apparatus, the workform being selected via the user interface device, back up installation file information of the additional application based on a package name of the additional application, and transmit, to the external apparatus via the communication interface, the backed up installation file information of the additional application with the workform to be shared.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, wherein, when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to, when an additional application that is not a default application installed in the image forming apparatus is comprised in a workform shared from an external apparatus, determine whether or not the additional application is installed in the image forming apparatus, and, when the additional application is not installed, automatically install the additional application based on installation file information of the additional application received with the shared workform from the external apparatus via the communication interface and store the shared workform.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface;
- a user interface device;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, wherein, when executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to, when an additional application that is not a default application installed in the image forming apparatus is comprised in a workform shared from an external apparatus:
- determine whether or not the additional application is installed in the image forming apparatus,
- when the additional application is not installed, generate and display a pop-up window on the user interface device asking a user whether to install the additional application,
- receive an input of whether to install the additional application from the user, and
- when the received user input is to install the additional application, install the additional application based on installation file information of the additional application received with the shared workform from the external apparatus via the communication interface and store the shared workform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.