Patent ID: 7814434

Claim:
An operation system, comprising: a hardware display unit for displaying windows including (i) a plurality of instruction windows, each instruction window used for instructing an execution of a function, and (ii) a plurality of hierarchical menu windows, each menu window containing items, each item respectively linked with a hierarchically lower window, which is displayed when a selection operation is performed for the each item, the plurality of hierarchical menu windows including (a) a single first menu window, which is hierarchically highest, (b) a plurality of intermediate menu windows hierarchically lower than the first menu window, and (c) a plurality of last menu windows hierarchically lower than the intermediate menu windows, each last menu window directly linked with one of the instruction windows hierarchically lowest, wherein one of the instruction windows is displayed by a selection procedure of repeating selection operations taking place in menu windows from the first menu window up to one of the last menu windows; a storage unit configured to store as a selection record of a latest selection procedure with respect to a certain item of items in a certain menu window of the plurality of menu windows an association between (i) the certain item in the certain menu window and (ii) a certain instruction window displayed by the latest selection procedure; a skip instruction unit configured to indicate skipping of displaying at least one lower-layered menu window while specifying one of items in any one of the first menu window and the intermediate menu windows, the any one of the first menu window and the intermediate menu windows being displayed by the display unit; and a display control unit configured to skip the at least one lower-layered menu window towards one of the instruction windows based on the stored selection record when the skip instruction unit indicates the skipping while specifying the one of items in the any one of the first menu window and the intermediate menu windows, wherein the skip instruction unit indicates the skipping by continuing the selection operation for the certain item more than a predetermined time period.