METHOD OF CONTROLLING USER INFORMATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20110196850A1
• Filed: 04/19/2011
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toru Matsuda
• Original Assignee: Toru Matsuda
• Inventors: MATSUDA, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 8,135,734 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0096 Simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous functioning of a plurality of operations H04N1/32545 takes precedence; multiprogramming arrangements of computers G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0097 Storage of instructions or parameters, e.g. customised instructions or different parameters for different user IDs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32598 Bus based systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/34 for coin-freed systems ; Pay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A method of controlling user information for an information processing apparatus includes the steps of a process of an application program requesting user information controlling unit to obtain an item of said user information, and said user information controlling unit providing the obtained item of said user information to said process. The user information controlling unit obtains the user information requested by the process of the application program and provides the user information to the process. Accordingly, the user information can be shared by the application programs and centrally controlled.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

an image processing hardware including at least one of a printer unit and a scanner unit;

one or more image processing application that processes images using the image processing hardware;

an operating system; and

a user information control program that are commonly accessed and used by the one or more image processing application, the user information control program running on the operating system, wherein the user information control program, in response to reception of a request from a particular image processing application, provides the particular image processing application with user information corresponding to the request.