Providing of user interface screen based on different user interface platforms
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorSoo-Young Kang
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus and method for providing a user interface (UI) screen are provided. The image forming apparatus may include a processor to execute instructions stored in a memory to display applications running on different UI platforms supported by different operating systems, together on a home screen based on a main UI platform selected among the different UI platforms, on a UI device.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus for providing a user interface (UI) screen, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a UI device;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor,
- wherein the processor executes the instructions to:
- display applications, running on different UI platforms supported by different operating systems, together on a home screen based on a main UI platform selected among the different UI platforms, on the UI device, and
- display, on the home screen based on the main UI platform, a virtual button to switch to a home screen based on a second UI platform among the different UI platforms, wherein the home screen based on the second UI platform is to display together the applications running on the different UI platforms supported by different operating systems that are displayed together on the home screen based on the main UI platform.
A method of providing a user interface (UI) screen on an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- selecting a main UI platform among different UI platforms supported by different operating systems;
- displaying applications, running on the different UI platforms, together on a home screen based on the main UI platform;
- and
- displaying, on the home screen based on the main UI platform, a virtual button to switch to a home screen based on a second UI platform among the different UI platforms,
- wherein the home screen based on the second UI platform is to display together the applications running on the different UI platforms that are displayed together on the home screen based on the main UI platform.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon instructions executable by a processor and comprising:
- instructions for selecting a main user interface (UI) platform among different UI platforms supported by different operating systems;
- instructions for displaying applications running on the different UI platforms, together on a home screen based on the main UI platform:
- and
- instructions for displaying, on the home screen based on the main UI platform, a virtual button to switch to a home screen based on a second UI platform among the different UI platforms,
- wherein the home screen based on the second UI platform is to display together the applications running on the different UI platforms that are displayed together on the home screen based on the main UI platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.