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Information input/output control apparatus and method for indicating which of at least one information terminal device is able to execute a functional operation based on environmental information

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsMitsumasa Sugiyama, Susumu Sugiura, Yoshikazu Yokomizo, Yoshinobu Mita, Makoto Takaoka, Shigetada Kobayashi, Junichi Shishizuka, Tsutomu Negishi, Osamu Yamada, Yukari Toda, Kazuhiro Saito, Masanari Toda, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Yasuo Fukuda

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Abstract

There is disclosed an information input/output control device and a method therefor which displays a list of identification informations indicating an information terminal device with which a functional operation can be executed in response to an acquired environmental information of the information terminal device and in accordance with an input of an indication information which instruct to execute the functional operation.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus connected to at least one terminal control device via a network, a plurality of terminal devices being connected to the at least one terminal control device, each terminal device executing a functional operation, said information processing apparatus comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring status information on a status of each of the plurality of terminal devices;
first input means for inputting an instruction on a desired functional operation;
second input means for inputting a selection instruction for selecting one of the at least one terminal control device;
and
display control means for controlling a display to display identification information of one or more of the plurality of terminal devices on the basis of the status information acquired by said acquiring means, wherein said display control means controls the display to display the identification information of one or more of the terminal devices which are connected to the one terminal control device selected through the selection instruction and which can execute the desired functional operation in response to said second input means inputting the selection information.

2 more elements

An information processing method operative in an information processing apparatus connected to at least one terminal control device via a network, a plurality of terminal devices being connected to the at least one terminal control device, each terminal device executing a functional operation, said information processing method comprising:

an acquiring step of acquiring status information on a status of each of the plurality of terminal devices;
a first input step of inputting an instruction on a desired functional operation;
a second input step of inputting a selection instruction for selecting one of the at least one terminal control device;
and
a display control step of controlling a display to display identification information of one or more of the plurality of terminal devices on the basis of the status information acquired in said acquiring step, wherein said display control step control the display to display the identification information of one or more of the terminal devices which are connected to the one terminal control device selected through the selection instruction and which can execute the desired functional operation in response to said second input step inputting the selection instruction.

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A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for executing an information processing method operative in an information processing apparatus connected to at least one terminal control device via a network, a plurality of terminal devices being connected to the at least one terminal control device, each terminal device executing a functional operation, said information processing method comprising:

an acquiring step of acquiring status information on a status of each of the plurality of terminal devices;
a first input step of inputting an instruction on a desired functional operation;
a second input step of inputting a selection instruction for selecting one of the at least one terminal control device;
and
a display control step of controlling a display to display identification information of one or more of the plurality of terminal devices on the basis of the status information acquired in said acquiring step, wherein said display control step control the display to display the identification information of one or more of the terminal devices which are connected to the one terminal control device selected through the selection instruction and which can execute the desired functional operation in response to said second input step inputting the selection instruction.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/730,462Filed 15 Oct 1996 · continuation
Priority: 18 Jan 1994
Granted: 30 Nov 1999
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

G06F 3/1297
Digital output to print unit , e.g. line printer, chain printer: printer code translation, conversion, emulation, compression; Configuration of…
H04L 9/40
Cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols: network security protocols
H04L 41/22
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks: comprising specially…
H04N 1/0035
Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof: user-machine interface; Control console