IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150101025A1
• Filed: 09/16/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Murata, Tomomi, Onsen, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US14/487,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20150101025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/121 Restricting unauthorised execution of programs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

An image forming apparatus, and a method of controlling the apparatus, capable of executing a Web browser application and a cooperation application for cooperating with a server, determines whether a license of the Web browser application is valid and whether the cooperation application for cooperating with the server is valid, and in accordance with the determinations, displays a screen of the Web browser application in which a display item is restricted.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus capable of executing a Web browser application and a cooperation application for cooperating with a server, the apparatus comprising:

a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not a license of the Web browser application is valid;

a second determination unit configured to determine whether or not the cooperation application for cooperating with the server is valid; and

a display control unit configured to display a screen of the Web browser application in which a display item is restricted in accordance with the determinations by the first determination unit and the second determination unit.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the screen is a screen for instructing an initiation of an authorization setting for the image forming apparatus to access the server.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit configured to store a validity/invalidity of the license of the Web browser application, a validity/invalidity of the cooperation with the server, and a URL of an authorization server.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a restricted item storage unit configured to store a validity/invalidity of the license of the Web browser application, and a list of display items for which a display item in the screen is restricted which corresponds to a validity/invalidity of the cooperation application.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit restricts, in a case where the first determination unit determines that the license of the Web browser application is invalid, and the second determination unit determines that the cooperation application is valid, a display item related to a function that is not able to be executed in a case where the license of the Web browser is invalid, and

restricts, in a case where the first determination unit determines that the license of the Web browser is valid, and the second determination unit determines that the cooperation application is valid, a display of a URL.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a registration unit configured to, when the cooperation application is added, perform a registration of information including a shortcut of the Web browser application upon activation of the added application.

7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the restricted item storage unit is arranged in the server.

8. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first determination unit determines in accordance with an instruction of a user input via the screen.

9. A method of controlling an image forming apparatus capable of executing a Web browser application and a cooperation application for cooperating with a server, the method comprising:

determining whether or not a license of the Web browser application is valid;

determining whether or not the cooperation application for cooperating with the server is valid; and

displaying a screen of the Web browser application in which a display item is restricted in accordance with the determinations in the determining steps.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as an image forming apparatus capable of executing a Web browser application and a cooperation application for cooperating with a server, the apparatus comprising:

a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not a license of the Web browser application is valid;

a second determination unit configured to determine whether or not the cooperation application for cooperating with the server is valid; and

a display control unit configured to display a screen of the Web browser application in which a display item is restricted in accordance with the determinations by the first determination unit and the second determination unit.