Patent ID: 9400684
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a processor; a function accepting unit that accepts functions; and a workflow generating unit that generates a workflow including a plurality of the functions accepted by the function accepting unit and processing data with the functions in combination, wherein the function accepting unit accepts the execution result notification function indicates that it can accept a return instruction that allows an execution position of the workflow to return to a function before the execution result notification function, and upon acceptance of the return instruction including any specified position before the execution result notification function, returns the execution position to a function specified by the accepted return instruction, the settings of at least one of the edit functions located between the function specified by the return instruction and the execution result notification function in the workflow can be changed when the execution position is returned in response to the return instruction, the data is edited based on the changed settings, and after the execution position is returned based on the return instruction, at least one of the edit functions located between the function specified by the return instruction and the execution result notification function in the workflow indicates that there is a setting candidate similar to the current setting, and if the edit function accepts a setting selection instruction to select the candidate, the edit function edits data based on the settings specified by the accepted setting selection instruction.