US 11,989,463 B2
System including first device copying shortcut information to portable memory, and second device performing shortcut related process based on the shortcut information stored in the portable memory
Yutaka Urakawa, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/453,402.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-137948 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2022; and application No. 2022-137949 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0069816 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/1204 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01)] 40 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a first image forming device; and
a second image forming device,
wherein the first image forming device includes:
a first user interface;
a first memory interface on which a portable memory can be detachably mounted;
a first image formation engine configured to form an image; and
a first controller,
wherein the second image forming device includes:
a second user interface;
a second memory interface on which the portable memory can be detachably mounted;
a second image formation engine configured to form an image; and
a second controller,
wherein the first controller is configured to perform:
an image formation process to form an image using the first image formation engine;
generating, in response to receiving an instruction via the first user interface, a piece of shortcut information, the piece of shortcut information specifying an image formation process and a settings value for the image formation process, the piece of shortcut information further specifying that the image formation process and the settings value are associated with a shortcut icon;
displaying the shortcut icon on the basis of the piece of shortcut information on the first user interface;
in response to receiving an operation on the shortcut icon, controlling the first image formation engine to perform the image formation process specified in the piece of shortcut information using the settings value specified in the piece of shortcut information; and
in response to receiving an instruction via the first user interface, copying the piece of shortcut information to the portable memory mounted on the first memory interface so that the portable memory stores a copied piece of shortcut information,
wherein the second controller is configured to perform:
an image formation process to form an image using the second image formation engine; and
after the portable memory is mounted on the second memory interface, a shortcut process related to the copied piece of shortcut information.