Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hye Heon Jung

Kenneth Kay Smith

Pratik Shah

Andrew P Chick

Matthew James Storey

Min-Chul Lee

Eun-kyung Yun

Kyonghwan Kim

Robert Moser

Changyeop Oh

Dustin C Rosing

Virginia K Capps

Kwangsung Park

Eun-Kyung Yun

Hyun Sub Kil

Se Rrah Lim

Jee Hee Lee

KyongHwan Kim

ChangYeop Oh

Nanette Jensen

Jae In Lee

An iconographic control panel of an image forming apparatus is provided. The iconographic control panel includes a plurality of physical iconographic control buttons respectively corresponding to a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus, each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons comprising at least one dedicated light emitting diode, and at least one processor to determine an availability of the plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons, determine a functional state of the plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus determined to be available, and control an illumination of the at least one LED of each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons based on the availability of each function corresponding to each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons and the functional state of each function determined to be available.

Iconographic control panel of an image forming apparatus

A server may determine, with respect to a user who has accessed the server, a user level within a hierarchy structure and a user group to which the user belongs. The server may determine, according to an authority that is set by a manager at a level higher than that of the user within the user group with respect to the user level of the user, a service level of a service that is to be provided to the user. The server may provide the service to the user according to the service level.

Providing service according to user authority

Printer

Multifunction printer

Growing community of inventors

Pangyo, South Korea

Hye Heon Jung