Patent ID: 6408323
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A job execution managing apparatus comprising:an information storing unit for defining a character string indicating a user's job which the user must perform to carry out a job with given contents as job information, preparing therein said job information for each of an arbitrary number of jobs, classifying said prepared job information to first job information specifying execution of a particular application program and second job information specifying the first job information and storing the first and second job information, and also storing therein first relational information correlating the first job information to a corresponding particular application program and second relational information correlating the second job information to the first job information; a display for reading out and displaying, of the first and second job information, prespecified first and/or second job information from the information storing unit; and a job execution control unit for providing, when said first job information displayed by the display is selected, controls over execution of a corresponding application program, referring to the first relational information, and also providing, when the second job information is selected, controls over display of the first job information referring to the second relational information.