Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multifunction apparatuses each of which carries out a cooperation process in cooperation with an application which is executable on an external information processing apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 多功能装置与可在外部信息处理装置上执行的应用程序协同执行协作处理
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Application No.: US13182177Application Date: 2011-07-13
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Publication No.: US08625119B2Publication Date: 2014-01-07
- Inventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
- Applicant: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
- Agent David G. Conlin; Edmund J. Koundakjian
- Priority: JP2010-160858 20100715
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12 ; G06K15/00

Abstract:
A multifunction apparatus includes an application information storage section in which, for each of a plurality of applications, (i) identification information for identifying the each of the plurality of applications and (ii) function information indicating what function(s) has been previously carried out in a cooperation process carried out by the multifunction apparatus and the application in cooperation with each other, are stored, and a device control section which determines, when the device control section receives an instruction to start a cooperation process, whether or not Condition A is satisfied, the device control section causing, if Condition A is satisfied, a switching operation for switching an image forming section from a waiting mode to a normal operation mode to be started, Condition A: function information associated with identification information indicating the selected application indicates a specific function which causes the image forming section to operate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120013931A1 MULTIFUNCTION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-01-19
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