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US 10,915,276 B2Granted
Defect control in security setting of image forming apparatus
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJong Seob Kwak
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus may determine whether encrypted data may be transmitted or received between the image forming apparatus and one or more external devices, and determine a defect in security set to the image forming apparatus based on the determination.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communicator to perform communication with one or more external devices;
- a controller to:
- obtain security setting information of the one or more external devices,
- perform a comparison between the obtained security setting information of the one or more external devices with security setting information set to the image forming apparatus to determine based on a result of the comparison whether it is possible to transmit or receive encrypted data between the image forming apparatus and the one or more external devices, respectively, and
- determine defect information corresponding to the one or more external devices, respectively, in the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus based on the result of the comparison,
- the defect information to indicate an activation or deactivation change to be applied to an information item, from among information items, of the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus, corresponding to the one or more external devices, respectively, based on the result of the comparison;
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- a user interface device to output the defect information indicating the activation or deactivation change to be applied in the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus.
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A method of operating an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- obtaining security setting information of one or more external devices that is to perform communication with the image forming apparatus;
- determining whether it is possible to transmit or receive encrypted data between the image forming apparatus and the one or more external devices based on a result of comparing the obtained security setting information of the one or more external devices, respectively, with security setting information set to the image forming apparatus;
- determining defect information corresponding to the one or more external devices, respectively, in the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus based on the result of the comparing,
- the defect information to indicate an activation or deactivation change to be applied to an information item, from among information items, of the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus, corresponding to the one or more external devices, respectively, based on the result of the comparing;
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- outputting the defect information indicating the activation or deactivation change to be applied in the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus.
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A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon instructions for operating an image forming apparatus, the non-transitory computer readable recording medium comprising:
- instructions for obtaining security setting information of one or more external devices that is to perform communication with the image forming apparatus;
- instructions for determining whether it is possible to transmit or receive encrypted data between the image forming apparatus and the one or more external devices based on a result of comparing the obtained security setting information of the one or more external devices, respectively, with security setting information set to the image forming apparatus;
- instructions for determining a-defect information corresponding to the one or more external devices, respectively, in the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus based on a result of the comparing,
- the defect information to indicate an activation or deactivation change to be applied to an information item, from among information items, of the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus, corresponding to the one or more external devices, respectively, based on the result of the comparing;
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- instructions for outputting the defect information indicating the activation or deactivation change to be applied in the security setting information set to the image forming apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.