# US 9,521,275 B2 · Electronic device and recording medium that support operation of users > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,521,275 B2 - Document ID: US9521275B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/953,333 - Filed: 2015-11-28 - Published: 2016-06-02 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2014-11-28 - Assignees: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Applicants: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Inventors: Makoto Kowaka - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9521275B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/00244: {with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324)} - G05B 15/02: electric - G06F 3/1204: {resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data} - G06F 3/1238: {Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs} - G06F 3/1273: {Print job history, e.g. logging, accounting, tracking} - H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract Provided is an electronic device including a user operation procedure storage processing part and a user operation procedure re-executing part. The user operation procedure storage processing part stores, for each user, a time and a procedure of operation performed by a user. The user operation procedure re-executing part re-executes the operation started at the operation time by the user identified by the user identification information based on user identification information and the operation time. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic device including a processor with one or more circuits, the processor comprising: a user operation procedure storage processing part that stores, for each user, an operation time and an operation procedure performed by a user; and a user operation procedure re-executing part that: receives inputted identification information identifying the user and an inputted time identifying the operation time, and based on the inputted identification information and the inputted time, re-executes the operation procedure, which was started by the user identified by the inputted user identification information at the operation time identified by the inputted time, wherein the operation procedure comprises a series of operation commands, and during the re-executed operation procedure, the user operation procedure re-executing part enters a wait state, proceeds the operation procedure by one operation command to re-execute a next operation command of the operation procedure when an operation that requires to re-execute a next operation command is inputted, and executes a change of the operation procedure when an operation that requires the change of the operation procedure is inputted. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, the processor further comprising a user operation procedure selecting part that, before re-execution of an image formation operation started at the operation time by the user identified by the user identification information, displays a preview image created by the image formation operation based on the user identification information and the operation time, and receives a selection of the preview image, wherein the operation procedure is an operation procedure of the image formation operation, and the user operation procedure re-executing part re-executes the image formation operation of the selected preview image. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein when a plurality of user identification information and operation times are input, the user operation procedure selecting part displays the preview image corresponding to a combination of the input of each user identification information and the operation time. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the operation procedure includes an operation procedure order indicating an order of execution of an operation command in the series of operation commands and the operation command corresponding to the operation procedure order, and the user operation procedure re-executing part adds a counter value every time an operation command included in the operation procedure is re-executed, and then re-executes the operation procedure based on the operation command corresponding to the counter value of the operation procedure order. ### Claim 5 A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores an operation support program executable by a computer built-in in an electronic device, the operation support program causing the computer to function as: a user operation procedure storage processing part that stores, for each user, an operation time and an operation procedure performed by a user, and a user operation procedure re-executing part that: receives inputted identification information identifying the user and an inputted time identifying the operation time, and based on the inputted identification information and the inputted time, re-executes the operation procedure which was started by the user identified by the inputted user identification information at the operation time identified by the inputted time, wherein the operation procedure comprises a series of operation commands, and during the re-executed operation procedure, the user operation procedure re-executing part enters a wait state, proceeds the operation procedure by one operation command to re-execute a next operation command of the operation procedure when an operation that requires to re-execute a next operation command is inputted, and executes a change of the operation procedure when an operation that requires the change of the operation procedure is inputted. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5, wherein the operation procedure includes an operation procedure order indicating an order of execution of an operation command in the series of operation commands and the operation command corresponding to the operation procedure order, and the user operation procedure re-executing part adds a counter value every time an operation command included in the operation procedure is re-executed, and then re-executes the operation procedure based on the operation command corresponding to the counter value of the operation procedure order.