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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2022
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kikuo Ueno, Matsumoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/44 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/4433 (2013.01); H04N 1/00474 (2013.01); H04N 1/00514 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multifunction peripheral includes a control unit that, when a registered user is using the multifunction peripheral, causes an operation panel to display information concerning an optional function that can be added to the multifunction peripheral, receives, with the operation panel, an evaluation of the user for the optional function, when receiving, with a communication I/F, an acquisition request for an evaluation for the optional function, generates an evaluation result obtained by aggregating evaluations of a plurality of registered users, and transmits the generated evaluation result to a transmission source of the acquisition request.


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