Image-processing apparatus and server device
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorOkihisa Yoshida
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Abstract
The image-processing apparatus includes: a communication interface unit; a user interface display unit which is arranged to provide information to a user; a user interface input unit provided with a hardware-key which is arranged to receive an input from the user; a web browser which is arranged to acquire page data from a web server, structure a display screen based upon the page data, and display the display screen on the user interface display unit; a hardware-key function assignor which is arranged to determine a function to be assigned to the hardware-key based upon the page data; and a hardware-key control unit which is arranged to control the hardware-key in accordance with the determination of the hardware-key function assignment by the hardware-key function assignor.
Claims16
An image-processing apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface unit;
- a user interface display unit that is arranged to provide information to a user;
- a user interface input unit provided with a hardware-key that is arranged to receive an input from the user;
- a web browser that is arranged to acquire page data from a web server, structure a display screen based upon the page data, and display the display screen on said user interface display unit;
- a hardware-key function assignor that is arranged to determine a function to be assigned to said hardware-key based upon the page data;
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- a hardware-key control unit that is arranged to control said hardware-key in accordance with the determination of the hardware-key function assignment by said hardware-key function assignor.
A server device comprising:
- a communication interface unit;
- a web server unit that is arranged to transmit page data to a web browser in response to a request from the web browser;
- an application server unit that is arranged to return text data to said web server unit based upon the request received through said web server unit;
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- a data server unit that is arranged to retain a data base for storing data relating to an image-processing apparatus in which the web browser is installed,
- wherein said application server unit inquires, based upon the request, of said data server unit for a hardware-key mounted on the image-processing apparatus and a function to be assigned to the hardware-key, and generates the text data containing a first keyword that specifies the hardware-key and a second keyword that defines the function to be assigned to the hardware-key based upon the response to the inquiry, and
- wherein said web server unit transmits to the web browser the page data containing the text data.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer of an image-processing apparatus, perform:
- causing a web browser to acquire page data from a web server, structure a display screen based upon the page data, and display the display screen on a user interface display unit;
- causing a hardware-key function assignor to determine a function to be assigned to a hardware-key based upon the page data;
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- causing a hardware-key control unit to control the hardware-key in accordance with the determination of the hardware-key function assignment by the hardware-key function assignor.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer of a server device, perform:
- causing a web server unit to receive a request from a web browser;
- causing an application server unit to inquire, based upon the request received through the web server unit, of a data server unit for a hardware-key mounted on a image-processing apparatus in which the web browser is installed and a function to be assigned to the hardware-key, the data server unit retaining a data base for storing data relating to the image-processing apparatus;
- causing the application server unit to generate text data containing a first keyword that specifies the hardware-key and a second keyword that defines the function to be assigned to the hardware-key based upon the response to the inquiry, and to return the text data to the web server unit;
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- causing the web server unit to transmit to the web browser page data containing the text data in response to the request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.