Patent ID: 9674381
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: an input device to which an operation by a user is input; a network communication device which performs processing for communication with an external device via a network; a non-transitory storage device including general setting items as settings used by a plurality of application software programs respectively; a job information generating device which performs processing to generate, for each job executed by application software, job information including settings for the job used by the application software that executes the job; and an access managing device which performs processing to manage, when the job is executed, access to the job information from the application software, wherein the job information generating device performs processing to when the job information generating device accepts values for setting items corresponding to the application software that executes the job and not included in the preliminary job information via the at least one of the input device and the network communication device, then the job information generating device adds the setting item to the preliminary job information before generating the job information, the electronic device further comprises a job information generation table that indicates, for each of the plurality of application software programs, when generating the job information, based on the job information generation table, the job information generating device duplicates from the preliminary job information to the job information, out of the settings included in the preliminary job information,