SERVER APPARATUS PROVIDING PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH CLOUD IMAGE PROCESSING SERVICE
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus 176 capable of easy log-in to a desired cloud service includes a print engine communicable with a cloud server 170 for printing a print job received from cloud server 170, a reader/writer 174 capable of proximity communication with a portable terminal 172, and a log-in executing device receiving log-in information to cloud server 170 from portable terminal 172 through reader/writer 174, for executing the log-in process to cloud server 170 using the log-in information.
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1. (canceled)
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2. A server apparatus, comprising:
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a communication device communicating with a plurality of apparatuses including an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus through a network; an authentication section configured to receive a log-in request of a user and apparatus information related to a second apparatus which has transmitted the log-in request through the communication device, for authenticating log-in of the user; a user log-in storage device storing the user whose log-in has been authenticated by the authentication section, in combination with the apparatus information; a determining section configured to determine, when log-in of a user is authenticated by the authentication section, whether the user has already been stored in combination with a first apparatus information in the log-in user storage device; and a default transmission destination setting section configured to set the first apparatus or the second apparatus as a default transmission destination apparatus to which data is transmitted in accordance with a designation by the user, when the first apparatus or the second apparatus is an image forming apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of managing a server apparatus, comprising:
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an authentication step of receiving, through a communication device communicating with a plurality of apparatuses including an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus through a network, a log-in request of a user and apparatus information related to a second apparatus which has transmitted the log-in request, and thereby authenticating log-in of the user; a log-in user storing step of storing the user authenticated at the authentication step, in combination with the apparatus information, in a log-in user storage device; a determining step of determining, when log-in of a user is authenticated at the authentication step, whether the user has already been stored in combination with a first apparatus information in the log-in user storage device; and a default transmission destination apparatus setting step of setting the first apparatus or the second apparatus as a default transmission destination apparatus to which data is transmitted in accordance with a designation by the user, when the first apparatus or the second apparatus is an image forming apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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Specification