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US 2004/0024744 A1Published application
Image forming device and network system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkihiro Yamada
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Abstract
When the printer 10 receives a request signal from one of the administrative computer G and the computers 20 indicating that the user has used the mouse 53 to click the “Edit” button displayed on the CRT monitor 55 (S4), then the printer 10 transmits data for the edit wizard 201 for modifying setting items displayed in the print function settings wizard 202 to the administrative computer G or the computer 20 corresponding to the ID data set attached to the request signal. The user uses the mouse 53 to click on either “Display on” or “Display off” next to each setting item in the edit wizard 201 displayed on the CRT monitor 55 (S6), enabling the user to re-edit setting items displayed in the print function settings wizard 202 (S7-S13).
Claims12
An image forming device comprising:
- a communicating portion connected to a network and capable of performing bi-directional communications;
- an image forming portion forming images on a recording paper based on image data received via the communicating portion, the image forming portion having a plurality of functions;
- a settings image data providing portion controlling the communicating portion to provide the network with settings image data in a HTML format, the settings image data indicating a setting image used for performing settings related to the plurality of functions possessed by the image forming portion;
- an edit image data providing portion controlling the communicating portion to provide the network with edit image data in the HTML format, the edit image data indicating an edit image used for editing the settings image data;
- and
- a settings image data editing portion receiving, from the network via the communicating portion, an edit instruction that corresponds to the edit image data, and editing the settings image data based on the edit instruction.
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A network system comprising:
- a network;
- an image forming device including:
- a communicating portion connected to the network and capable of performing bi-directional communications;
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- a personal computer including:
- a communicating device connected to the network and capable of performing bi-directional communications;
- a display device displaying an image based on image data in a HTML format received from the image forming device via the communicating device;
- an instruction inputting portion enabling a user to input various instructions;
- and
- a transmitting portion controlling the communicating device to transmit the instructions inputted via the instruction inputting portion to the image forming device via the network,
- wherein the image forming device further includes:
- an image forming portion forming images on a recording paper based on image data received via the communicating portion from the personal computer, the image forming portion having a plurality of functions;
- a settings image data providing portion controlling the communicating portion to provide via the network the personal computer with settings image data in the HTML format, the settings image data indicating a setting image used for performing settings related to the plurality of functions possessed by the image forming portion;
- an edit image data providing portion controlling the communicating portion to provide via the network the personal computer with edit image data in the HTML format, the edit image data indicating an edit image used for editing the settings image data;
- and
- a settings image data editing portion receiving, from the personal computer via the network and the communicating portion, an edit instruction that corresponds to the edit image data, and editing the settings image data based on the edit instruction,
- wherein the transmitting portion in the personal computer controls the communicating device to transmit to the image forming device a request to send the edit image data when the instruction inputting portion receives the user's request to edit the settings image, the edit image data providing portion in the image forming device controlling the communicating portion to transmit the edit image data to the personal computer upon receipt of the request, the display device in the personal computer displaying the edit image based on the edit image data, and
- wherein the transmitting portion in the personal computer controls the communicating device to transmit to the image forming device the edit instruction that the user inputs in the instruction inputting portion while viewing the edit image on the displaying device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.