Multi-functional peripheral and multi-functional peripheral control system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKunihiko Tsujimoto
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Abstract
A multi-functional peripheral 21 according to this invention operates in accordance with a web browser software, and includes: a web browser section 5 configured to store cookie information received from a web server section 53 into a setting information database 6; and an apparatus control section 7 configured to manage the cookie information in accordance with a mode set by a verification mode setting section 13. In a case where the mode set by the verification mode setting section 13 is a user verification inactive mode, the apparatus control section 7 discards the cookie information from the setting information database 6 after operation of the web browser section is terminated.
Claims12
A multi-functional peripheral communicating with an information processing apparatus over a communications network, the information processing apparatus including a web server section operating in accordance with a web server software,
- the multi-functional peripheral comprising:
- a mode setting section configured to (i) request for an entry of identification information identifying a user, (ii) select a mode of either (a) a user verification active mode allowing the user to use the multi-functional peripheral after the entry of the identification information is received or (b) a user verification inactive mode allowing the user to use the multi-functional peripheral without the entry of the identification information being received, and (iii) cause the mode selected to be executed;
- a web browser section operating in accordance with a web browser software, configured to store cookie information received from the web server section into a storage section;
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- a cookie information management section configured to manage the cookie information in accordance with the mode set by the mode setting section, and in a case where the mode set by the mode setting section is the user verification inactive mode, the cookie information management section discarding the cookie information from the storage section after operation of the web browser section is terminated.
A multi-functional peripheral control system comprising:
- an information processing apparatus including a web server section operating in accordance with a web server software;
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- a multi-functional peripheral communicating with the information processing apparatus over a communications network,
- the multi-functional peripheral comprising:
- a mode setting section configured to (i) request for entry of identification information identifying a user, (ii) select a mode of either (a) a user verification active mode allowing the user to use the multi-functional peripheral after the entry of the identification information is received or (b) a user verification inactive mode allowing the user to use the multi-functional peripheral without the entry of the identification information being received, and (iii) cause the mode selected to be executed;
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- a web browser section operating in accordance with a web browser software, configured to (i) store cookie information received from the web server section into the storage section and (ii) notify the web server section of mode information indicative of whether the mode set by the mode setting section is the user verification active mode or the user verification inactive mode,
- the web server section being configured to transmit to the web browser section an instruction to discard the cookie information from the storage section after the operation of the web browser section is terminated, in a case where the mode information received from the multi-functional peripheral is the user verification inactive mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.