US 7,398,545 B2Granted

User data management device having a notification determination device that determines who is provided with identity data, storage medium which stores a control program, and control method

AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation

InventorYoshitaka Matsuki

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Abstract

A user data management device, a storage medium which stores a control program, and a control method are disclosed which efficiently report the identity of a user who is using equipment to some or all members of the department in which that equipment is located, or to managers of that department, in order to be informed of the use status of that equipment, and control the use of that equipment by unauthorized users. The user data management device includes input means that inputs user data belonging to a user that will use the equipment, notification means that will provide one or more persons with identity data concerning a user who is using the equipment in which the user data was input, authentication means that authenticates the user from the user data, and notification determination means that will determine one or more persons to be provided with identity data, and then provide identity data to them that identifies the user authenticated with the authentication means by means of the notification means.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A user data management device, comprising:

an image forming device being connected a network accessible by a plurality of users;
at least one first personal computer being used by one user of the plurality of users, and being connected to the image forming device via the network, the first personal computer having a first notification device;
and
a second personal computer being used by a manager, and being connected to the image forming device and first personal computer via the network, the second personal computer having a second notification device,
the image forming device having
an input device which inputs user data that identifies the one user who will use the image forming device by sending user data including printing data from the first personal computer to the image forming device,
an authentication device that performs authentication by comparing the user data input to the input device to pre-registered user data,
a notification determination device that determines the one user and the manager being provided with identity data of the one user authenticated by the authentication device on the basis of the pre-registered user data, and
a third notification device,
the first, second, and third notification devices providing identity data of the one user using the image forming device determined by the notification determination device.

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A storage medium comprising a control program stored thereon that is executed by a computer of an image forming device, the control program comprising:

code for an input device which inputs user data to identify a user who will use the image forming device being connected to a network accessible by a plurality of users, one user of the plurality of users using a first personal computer being connected to the image forming device via the network, and a manager using a second personal computer being connected to the image forming device and first personal computer via the network;
code for an authentication device to perform authentication by comparing the user data input to the input device to pre-registered user data;
code for a notification determination device to determine the one user and the manager being provided with identity data of the one user authenticated by the authentication device on the basis of the pre-registered data;
and
code to provide notification devices of the one user and the manager with the identity data of the one user who will use the image forming device determined by the notification determination device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.