Image formation apparatus, data reception method, program for performing data reception method, and storage medium for storing program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiko Sakai
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Abstract
In an image formation apparatus which receives data transmitted from plural external apparatuses connected through a network and processes the received data, transmission source lists associated with users of the image formation apparatus are stored in a memory, the transmission source list corresponding to the user authenticated with respect to the image formation apparatus is selected, it is judged, when the data is received from the external apparatus, whether or not transmission source information of the external apparatus has been registered on the transmission source list, and it is controlled based on the judged result whether or not to process the received data.
Claims10
An image formation apparatus that receives data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and processes the data received, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory unit storing transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving unit adapted to receive user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
- an authentication unit adapted to authenticate the user of the image formation apparatus based on the user information received by the user information receiving unit;
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- a control unit adapted to control the image formation apparatus, in response to the authentication unit authenticating the user, not to accept data from an external apparatus other than the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
An image formation apparatus that receives data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and processes the data received, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory unit storing transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving unit adapted to receive user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
- an authentication unit adapted to authenticate the user of the image formation apparatus based on the user information stored in the memory unit and the user information received by the user information receiving unit;
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- a control unit adapted to control the image formation apparatus, in response to the authentication unit authenticating the user, not to accept data from the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
A data reception processing method performed by an image formation apparatus for receiving data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and for processing the data received, the method comprising:
- a storing step of storing, in a memory unit, transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving step of receiving user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
- an authentication step of authenticating the user of the image formation apparatus based on the user information received in the user information receiving step;
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- a controlling step of controlling the information processing apparatus, in response to the user being authenticated in the authentication step, not to accept data from an external apparatus other than the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
A data reception processing method performed by an image formation apparatus for receiving data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and for processing the received data, the data reception processing method comprising:
- a storing step of storing, in a memory unit, transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving step of receiving user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
- an authentication step of authenticating the user of the image formation apparatus based on the user information stored in the storing step and the user information received in the user information receiving step;
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- a controlling step of controlling the image formation apparatus, in response to the user being authenticated in the authentication step, not to accept data from the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
A computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing an image formation apparatus to execute a data reception processing method of receiving data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and of processing the data received, the method comprising:
- a storing step of storing, in a memory unit, transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving step of receiving user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
- an authentication step of authenticating the user of the image formation apparatus based on the user information received in the user information receiving step;
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- a controlling step of controlling the image formation apparatus, in response to the user being authenticated in the authentication step, not to accept data from an external apparatus other than the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
A computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing an image formation apparatus to execute a data reception processing method of receiving data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and of processing the data received, the method comprising:
- a storing step of storing, in a memory unit, transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving step of receiving user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
- an authentication step of authenticating the user of the image formation apparatus based on the user information input stored in the storing step and the user information received in the user information receiving step;
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- a controlling step of controlling the image formation apparatus, in response to the user being authenticated in the authentication step, not to accept data from the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
An image formation apparatus that receives data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and processes the data received, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory unit storing transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving unit adapted to receive user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
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- a control unit adapted to control the image formation apparatus, in a case where the user is authenticated based on the user information received by the user information receiving unit, not to accept data from an external apparatus other than the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
An image formation apparatus that receives data transmitted from one or more external apparatuses connected through a network and processes the data received, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory unit storing transmission source information specifying the external apparatuses associated with user information specifying one or more users of the image formation apparatus, wherein each user specified by user information is associated with at least one of the external apparatuses specified by transmission source information;
- a user information receiving unit adapted to receive user information input by a user of the image formation apparatus;
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- a control unit adapted to control the image formation apparatus, in a case where the user is authenticated based on the user information received by the user information receiving unit, not to accept data from the at least one of the external apparatuses specified by the transmission source information that is associated with the user specified by the user information of the authenticated user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.