Data Processing Device for Renaming Virtual Device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuji Miyata
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Abstract
A data processing device including a registering unit, a display unit, a usage frequency recording unit, and a virtual device renaming unit. The registering unit registers a plurality of communicable printers as a plurality of virtual devices. The display unit displays a plurality of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices. The usage frequency recording unit records usage frequencies of the virtual devices. The virtual device renaming unit changes at least one of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices to a device name representing the usage frequency of a corresponding virtual device recorded in the usage frequency recording unit.
Claims32
A data processing device comprising:
- a registering unit that registers a plurality of communicable printers as a plurality of virtual devices;
- a display unit that displays a plurality of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices;
- a usage frequency recording unit that records usage frequencies of the virtual devices;
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- a virtual device renaming unit that changes at least one of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices to a device name representing the usage frequency of a corresponding virtual device recorded in the usage frequency recording 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, 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 recording usage frequencies of the virtual devices;
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- a program for renaming at least one of virtual device names for the plurality of virtual devices to a device name representing the usage frequency of a corresponding virtual device recorded by the recording program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.