US 12,177,399 B2
Information processing method for user terminal of image forming apparatus system
Hideaki Suzuki, Fuji Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/464,810.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-196196 (JP), filed on Dec. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0195925 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00915 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00639 (2013.01); H04N 1/00822 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. An information processing method for a user terminal connectable to a plurality of image forming devices, the method comprising:
acquiring use information from a local storage device of a user terminal, the use information regarding past use of image forming devices in a plurality of image forming devices;
identifying, based on the use information, the image forming devices in the plurality of image forming devices that have been used in the past by a user of the user terminal;
transmitting a status request to the image forming devices in the plurality of image forming devices used in the past;
generating screen data for a history display screen based on the use information regarding the past use of the image forming devices, the history display screen showing image forming devices in the plurality of image forming devices identified as used in the past; and
causing a display device to display the history display screen with those previously used image forming devices currently in a usable status, based on a returned status request response, being shown in one mode and those previously used image forming devices currently in an unusable status, based on a returned status request, being shown in another mode.