Multifunction peripheral carrying out a cooperative process in cooperation with application selected form plurality of applications
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKunihiko Tsujimoto
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Abstract
The multifunction peripheral registers (i) function information indicative of a type of function executed in a past cooperative process in cooperation with an application and (ii) a URL which was being set when an execution start instruction on the function was received from the application so that the function information and the URL are associated with each other. In a case where (i) a first URL, which is identical to a second URL which is currently set, is registered and (ii) a function indicated by function information associated with the first URL requires a warm-up, a device control section starts the warm-up of, an image forming section.
Claims12
A multifunction peripheral which carries out a cooperative process in cooperation with an application selected from a plurality of applications which are executable on an external information processing apparatus, said multifunction peripheral comprising:
- a mode switching target member having (i) a normal operation mode and (ii) a waiting mode which is lower in power consumption than the normal operation mode;
- a registration processing section which registers, in a storage section, application correspondence information of each of the plurality of applications, the application correspondence information containing function information and particular process state information which are associated with each other, the function information being indicative of a type of a function which was executed by the multifunction peripheral in cooperation with said each of the plurality of applications in a past cooperative process, and the particular process state information being indicative of at least one of (i) a first stage of a process of said each of the plurality of applications at which first stage an execution start instruction on the function is received from said each of the plurality of applications and (ii) a second stage which precedes the first stage by a predetermined number of stage(s);
- an information obtaining section which obtains current process state information while the multifunction peripheral is carrying out a cooperative process in cooperation, with an application selected from the plurality of applications, the current process state information being indicative of current stage of a process of the application selected from the plurality of applications;
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- a control section which judges whether or not a predetermined start condition is satisfied,
- in a case where the control section determines that the predetermined start condition is satisfied, the control section starting (i) a switching operation for switching the mode switching target member from the waiting mode to the normal operation mode or (ii) a part of the switching operation,
- the predetermined start condition including at least the following Condition A,
- Condition A:
- (i) particular process state information which matches current process state information obtained by the information obtaining section registered in the storage section and (ii) function information associated with the particular process state information is indicative of a particular function which causes the mode switching target member to be operated.
A multifunction peripheral which carries out a cooperative process in cooperation with an application selected from a plurality of applications which are executable on an external information processing apparatus, said multifunction peripheral comprising:
- a mode switching target member having (i) a normal operation mode and (ii) a waiting mode which is lower in power consumption than the normal operation mode;
- a registration processing section which registers particular process state information in a storage section for, among the plurality of applications, a certain application which executed, in a past cooperative process, a particular function causing the mode switching target member to be operated, the particular process state information being indicative of at least one of (i) a first stage of a process of the certain application at which first stage an execution start instruction on the particular function was received from the certain application and (ii) a second stage which precedes the first stage by a predetermined number of stage(s);
- an information obtaining section which obtains current process state information while the multifunction peripheral is carrying out a cooperative process in cooperation with an application selected from the plurality of applications, the current process state information being indicative of a current stage of a process of the application selected from the plurality of applications;
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- a control section which judges whether or not a predetermined start condition is satisfied, in a case where the control section determines that the predetermined start condition is satisfied, the control section starting (i) a switching operation for switching the mode switching target member from the waiting mode to the normal operation mode or (ii), a part of the switching operation,
- the predetermined start condition including at least the following Condition A′,
- Condition A′:
- current process state information obtained by the information obtaining section matches particular process state information registered in the storage section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.