Layout evaluating apparatus
OwnerYasushi YAMADEinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a layout evaluating apparatus including: a detecting unit to detect an action of a user who provides a print instruction to a shared device which is shared by a plurality of users and has a print function, the action being involved with the print instruction; a judging unit to judge importance of a print in the print instruction in accordance with the action of the user, which the detecting unit detects; and an evaluating unit to aggregate the importance of each print with respect to each user and to evaluate an installation place of the shared device in accordance with the aggregated importance of each print with respect to each user.
Claims25
A layout evaluating apparatus comprising:
- a detecting unit to detect an action of a user who provides a print instruction to a shared device which is shared by a plurality of users and has a print function, the action being involved with the print instruction;
- a judging unit to judge importance of a print in the print instruction in accordance with the action of the user, which the detecting unit detects;
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- an evaluating unit to aggregate the importance of each print with respect to each user and to evaluate an installation place of the shared device in accordance with the aggregated importance of each print with respect to each user.
A layout evaluating apparatus comprising:
- a detecting unit to detect at least one of an action of a user, which is involved with a starting operation for starting a reading job to read an original by using a shared device which is shared by a plurality of users and has an original reading function, and an action of the user, which is involved with a reception of a resultant caused by the reading job;
- a judging unit to judging importance of the reading job in accordance with the detected action of the user;
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- an evaluating unit to aggregate the importance of each reading job with respect to each user and to evaluate an installation place of the shared device in accordance with the aggregated importance of each reading job with respect to each user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.