Data Processing Device for Renaming Virtual Device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuji Miyata
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Abstract
A data processing device includes a registering unit, a display unit, a settings-acquiring unit, and a virtual device renaming unit. The registering unit registers a plurality of communicable printers as a plurality of virtual devices. Each of the plurality of virtual devices has a plurality of functions. The display unit displays a plurality of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices. The settings-acquiring unit acquires a setting for at least one of the plurality of functions for each of the plurality of virtual device. The virtual device renaming unit changes at least one of the virtual device names for the plurality of the virtual devices to a device name representing the setting of a corresponding virtual device acquired by the settings-acquiring unit.
Claims20
A data processing device comprising:
- a registering unit that registers a plurality of communicable printers as a plurality of virtual devices, each of the plurality of virtual devices having a plurality of functions;
- a display unit that displays a plurality of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices;
- a settings-acquiring unit that acquires a setting for at least one of the plurality of functions for each of the plurality of virtual device;
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- a virtual device renaming unit that changes at least one of the virtual device names for the plurality of the virtual devices to a device name representing the setting of a corresponding virtual device acquired by the settings-acquiring unit.
A computer readable medium containing a virtual device renaming program for instructing a data processing device capable of registering a plurality of communicable printers as a plurality of virtual devices, each of the plurality of virtual devices having a plurality of functions, displaying a plurality of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices, prompting a user to select one of the plurality of virtual devices, and transmitting print data to a printer corresponding to a selected virtual device, the virtual device renaming program comprising:
- a program for acquiring a setting for at least one of the plurality of functions for each of the plurality of virtual device;
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- a program for renaming at least one of the virtual device names for the plurality of the virtual devices to a device name representing the setting of a corresponding virtual device acquired in the acquiring program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.