Patent ID: 8768949

Claim:
A document access apparatus for streamlining access to a document management application in a document management system, said document access apparatus comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium storing one or more programs of instructions executable by the processor, said programs of instructions, when executed by the processor, configuring the document access apparatus to include: a user registration part configured to provide a registration user interface for registration of a specific user in a registration session, and selection, by the specific user, of specific ones of a plurality of application functionalities of a document management apparatus, to be performed in response to request of the specific user in a later operations session, and register the selected application functionalities along with, for each one of the selected application functionalities, one or more user-specified parameters specified by the specific user in connection with the user registration; a user information maintenance part configured to maintain, for the specific user, user information including functionalities information indicating the specific application functionalities registered by the user information maintenance part for the specific user; and an application operations part configured to retrieve upon login by the specific user in the later operations session, the functionalities information indicating the specific application functionalities registered for the specific user, and provide in the later session an operations user interface configured to receive from the specific user the request to perform a selected application functionality amongst the specific application functionalities registered for the specific user, causing the document access apparatus to access the selected application functionality amongst the specific application functionalities registered for the specific user, wherein the application operations part displays the user-specified parameters selected during the registration session for the selected application functionality via the operations user interface, before performing the selected application functionality on a basis of the user-specified parameters.