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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Naoki Tsuchitoi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00511 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1273 (2013.01); H04N 1/4406 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus acquires an evaluation value of each user by using a combination of a plurality of criteria determined on the basis of usage history information, and determines priority order of users having a high possibility of using the image forming apparatus next time based on the acquired evaluation value.