Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Mrinalini Chakravarty

Dai Shigenobu

Damion Gordon

Chris Holmes

Method of providing a user interface in a display device for remote management of grouped plurality of devices. The method includes: receiving a first selection for selecting one group of a plurality of groups of devices; receiving a second selection for selecting one item of a plurality of items related to each of the plurality of groups; displaying a management screen for the selected item related to the selected group in response to a selection of the group while keeping the item selected before the selection of the group, the management screen being used for management of the selected item related to the selected group; and displaying the management screen for the selected item related to the selected group in response to a selection of the item while keeping the group selected before the selection of the item.

Remote-device-management user interface enabling automatic carryover of selected maintenance-process groups in transitioning among hierachized device groups

Example methods and systems may include displaying a primary screen having a plurality of function menus corresponding to multifunction printer functions, wherein each function menu includes a function icon, one or more major-setting icons, an execution icon, and an expansion icon. The example methods and systems may include, responsive to the selection of a major-setting icon, modifying a corresponding primary setting; responsive to the selection of an execution icon, causing a multifunction printing device to carry out a function; responsive to the selection of an expansion icon, displaying the function menu as a selected menu, wherein the selected menu is larger and includes more major-setting icons; and, responsive to the selection of a function icon, displaying a secondary screen, wherein the secondary screen includes one or more major-setting icons corresponding to one or more primary settings, and one or more minor-setting icons corresponding to one or more secondary settings.

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Lafayette, CA, United States of America

Mrinalini Chakravarty