Customizing menus for a consumer electronics device, including: preparing menu definitions for the menus to be customized on the consumer electronics device; generating menu configuration information using the prepared menu definitions; and transmitting the generated menu configuration information to the consumer electronics device. Keywords include customization of menus and consumer electronics device.

An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to, by referring to information in which a permission type a user of the apparatus has with respect to an operation of the apparatus is indicated for identification information of the user, identify the permission type corresponding to the identification information input by the user; and a display control unit configured to display a screen based on screen configuration information corresponding to the permission type identified by the identifying unit. The screen configuration information item corresponding to the permission type is stored in a storage unit.

An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores an operation pattern of at least one image forming apparatus and setting content set in the image forming apparatus which are associated with each other, an accumulation unit that accumulates history data indicating an operation history of the at least one image forming apparatus, and an output unit that outputs the setting content stored in the storage unit and associated with the operation pattern to the at least one image forming apparatus when history data corresponding to the operation pattern stored in the storage unit is detected in the history data accumulated in the accumulation unit.

A technique includes driving a signal line of a control panel connector to produce a transient response, which is represented by a signal that is provided by the signal line. The technique includes using the transient response to determine a characteristic of a control panel connection. Using the transient response includes sampling the signal a plurality of times to acquire a time sequence of values of the signal; and determining the characteristic based on the time sequence of values.

An image processing apparatus is configured to accept an operation instruction from an operation unit of the image processing apparatus and, via a network, an operation instruction from an information processing apparatus. A restriction is set on change in a setting of the image processing apparatus. Whether to permit cancellation of the restriction setting is set. A control is made in such a way that the cancellation of the restriction setting is permitted in a case where the cancellation of the restriction setting is set to be permitted. A control is made in such a way that the cancellation of the restriction setting is not permitted in a case where the cancellation of the restriction setting is set not to be permitted. An instruction from the information processing apparatus is accepted to cancel the restriction setting regardless of the setting of whether to permit the cancellation of the restriction setting.

An image processing apparatus is configured to accept an operation instruction from an operation unit of the image processing apparatus and, via a network, an operation instruction from an information processing apparatus. A restriction is set on change in a setting of the image processing apparatus. Whether to permit cancellation of the restriction setting is set. A control is made such a way that the cancellation of the restriction setting is permitted in a case where the cancellation of the restriction setting is set to be permitted. A control is made in such a way that the cancellation of the restriction setting is not permitted in a case where the cancellation of the restriction setting is set not to be permitted. An instruction from the information processing apparatus is accepted to cancel the restriction setting regardless of the setting of whether to permit the cancellation of the restriction setting.

The invention relates to an industrial testing device communicating with a data center located in a remote computer network, such as the cloud. Disclosed is a method of registering the device to the cloud and specifying the geographical location of the data center.

An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a setting of the information processing apparatus, a status display unit configured to display a message indicating a status of the information processing apparatus, and a display control unit configured to display, in a case where a setting changed by the setting unit is in an unreflected state, a message indicating that the setting is an unreflected setting on the status display unit.

A printer includes an interface selector to generate a signal that indicates whether a stylus has been installed with a printer. An interface controller monitors the signal from the interface selector to detect if the stylus has been installed with the printer and generates a first printer interface if the stylus has been detected and generates a second printer interface if the stylus has not been detected.

An information processing apparatus for providing, via a network, information indicating a resource to be displayed on a screen of a client device includes a resource manager to store resources, wherein each resource belongs to one of resource groups, each of the resource groups belongs to a content item, display priority orders are respectively assigned to two or more of the resource groups when the two or more of the resource groups belong to the content item, and identification information is attached to the content item; a receiver to receive, from the client device, the identification information of the content item; a selector to select, based on the identification information of the content item and the priority orders for displaying, a resource to be displayed on the screen of the client device from the resources; and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating the resource to the client device.