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US 2019/0104226 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Tsuchitoi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus acquires an evaluation value of each user by using a combination of a plurality of criteria determined on the basis of usage history information, and determines priority order of users having a high possibility of using the image forming apparatus next time based on the acquired evaluation value.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a management unit configured to manage usage history information about the image forming apparatus for each user;
- a priority order determination unit configured to determine an evaluation value for each user based on the usage history information using a plurality of different types of evaluation criteria applied to the usage history information, and to determine a priority order based on the determined evaluation value that predicts which users will use the image forming apparatus next time;
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- a log-in screen display unit configured to display an authentication icon of each user on a log-in screen based on the priority order.
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A control method of an image forming apparatus comprising:
- managing usage history information about the image forming apparatus for each user;
- determining an evaluation value for each user based on the usage history information using a plurality of different types of evaluation criteria applied to the usage history information, and determining a priority order based on the determined evaluation value that predicts which users will use the image forming apparatus next time;
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- displaying an authentication icon of each user on a log-in screen based on the priority order.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes an image forming apparatus to execute a method, the method comprising:
- managing usage history information about the image forming apparatus for each user;
- determining an evaluation value for each user based on the usage history information using a plurality of different types of evaluation criteria applied to the usage history information, and determining a priority order based on the determined evaluation value that predicts which users will use the image forming apparatus next time;
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- displaying an authentication icon of each user on a log-in screen based on the priority order.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.