Optimizing memory size
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJoon Hyung Hwangbo, Hyun Ji Kim, Ji Hoon Kim
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Abstract
An example image forming apparatus includes an input interface, an output interface, a memory, and a processor. The processor is to output information related to whether a function of the image forming apparatus is enabled through the output interface, based on the function of the image forming apparatus being disabled, output information indicating whether a size of the memory corresponding to the disabled function is allocated, and based on receiving a signal to remove a memory size allocated to the disabled function through the input interface, remove the memory size allocated to the disabled function and adjusts an allocation state of the memory size to a user setting state.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an input interface;
- an output interface;
- a plurality of devices that each perform a corresponding function of the image forming apparatus;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor,
- wherein the processor is to:
- set a first memory size corresponding to each function corresponding to the plurality of devices;
- output the first memory size for each of a number of enabled functions associated with the plurality of devices;
- output information indicating a second memory size of a disabled function corresponding to a device of the plurality of devices and whether the second memory size is allocated to the disabled function;
- alter, through the input interface, the second memory size to be temporarily usable by an enabled function of the number of enabled functions;
- and
- adjust an allocation state of the second memory size to a user setting state.
A method of setting a memory size, the method comprising:
- identifying a number of functions requiring memory related to a plurality of devices of an image forming apparatus;
- outputting a user interface window with information indicating whether a first function of the number of functions is enabled or disabled;
- outputting information indicating whether a first memory size corresponding to the first function is allocated;
- receiving a signal through an input interface to alter the first memory size when the first function is disabled;
- and
- altering the first memory size to be usable by a second function that is enabled according to a user setting state.
A non-transitory computer readable medium with a program to execute a method of memory size setting recorded therein, comprising:
- instructions to identify a number of functions requiring memory related to a plurality of devices of an image forming apparatus;
- instructions to output a user interface window with information related to whether a function of an image forming apparatus is enabled;
- instructions to output information indicating whether a memory size is allocated to a disabled function;
- and
- instructions to adjust a memory allocation state to a user setting state by altering the memory size allocated to the disabled function to be temporarily usable by a different function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.