User authentication and payment process of image forming apparatus

Abstract

An image forming apparatus and method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a print engine to perform a print job, a memory to store a first application associated with user authentication, a second application associated with performing a function of the image forming apparatus, and a third application associated with payment processing, and a processor to perform a user authentication using the first application, to perform a payment processing by providing authentication information of the first application to the third application during a payment operation for an authenticated user, and, based on the payment processing being completed, to control the print engine to perform an operation requested by a user by using the second operation.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.