Image processing apparatus, screen selection method, and screen selection program embodied on computer readable medium

A screen selection method executed by an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus including a plurality of types of user interfaces for accepting an instruction from a user, the screen selection method comprising the steps of:

• storing first association data which associates input data targeted for processing with user identification information, said plurality of types of user interfaces includes:
• display portion configured to display said screen, the operation accepting portion configured to accept an operation from a user;
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• a second interface which includes a communication portion for communicating with an external device;
• accepting authentication information input into one of said plurality of types of user interfaces and authenticating a user based on said authentication information;
• executing at least one of a plurality of types of processes according to settings input into the one of said plurality of types of user interfaces;
• storing second association data which associates a respective one of said plurality of types of user interfaces with a respective one of plurality of different processes, corresponding to the one of said plurality of types of user interfaces, as a process to be executed for said input data targeted for processing;
• judging whether or not data targeted for processing and associated by said first association data with the user identification information of a user authenticated in said authenticating step is stored;
• specifying a process associated by said second association data with the one of said plurality of types of user interfaces through which said authentication information has been accepted, in a case where it is judged in said judging step that data targeted for processing and associated by said first association data with the user identification information of said authenticated user is stored;
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• determining a screen for accepting settings for the process to be executed in said executing step, the process corresponding to the user interface through which said authentication information has been accepted and having been specified in said specifying step for data targeted for processing and associated by said first association data with said user identification information of the authenticated user, wherein
• said second interface includes an interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a personal computer, and an interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a mobile communication terminal;
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• said first interface is associated with a process of printing said input data targeted for processing by the image processing apparatus, said interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a personal computer is associated with a process of causing the personal computer to acquire said input data targeted for processing, and said interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a mobile communication terminal is associated with a process of deleting said input data targeted for processing.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a screen selection program executed by a computer controlling an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus including a plurality of types of user interfaces for accepting an instruction from a user, the screen selection program causing said computer to execute the steps of:

• storing first association data which associates input data targeted for processing with user identification information;
• accepting authentication information input into one of said plurality of types of user interfaces and authenticating a user based on said authentication information;
• executing at least one of a plurality of types of processes according to settings input into the one of said plurality of types of user interfaces;
• storing second association data which associates a respective one of said plurality of types of user interfaces with a respective one of plurality of different processes, corresponding to the one of said plurality of types of user interfaces, as a process to be executed for said input data targeted for processing;
• judging whether or not data targeted for processing and associated by said first association data with the user identification information of a user authenticated in said authenticating step is stored;
• specifying a process associated by said second association data with the one of said plurality of types of user interfaces through which said authentication information has been accepted, in a case where it is judged in said judging step that data targeted for processing and associated by said first association data with the user identification information of said authenticated user is stored;
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• determining a screen for accepting settings for the process to be executed in said executing step, the process corresponding to the user interface through which said authentication information has been accepted and having been specified in said specifying step for data associated by said first association data with said user identification information of the authenticated user,
• wherein said plurality of types of user interfaces includes:
• a first interface which includes a display portion and an operation accepting portion, the display portion configured to display said screen, the operation accepting portion configured to accept an operation from a user;
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• a second interface which includes a communication portion for communicating with an external device, and
• said second interface includes an interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a personal computer, and an interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a mobile communication terminal;
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• said first interface is associated with a process of printing said input data targeted for processing by the image processing apparatus, said interface to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a personal computer is associated with a process of causing the personal computer to acquire said input data targeted for processing, and said interface configured to accept a remote operation of the image processing apparatus from a mobile communication terminal is associated with a process of deleting said input data targeted for processing.