Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control method, and storage medium storing program

• US 9,503,598 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2012
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nishiyama, Kaori
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, King
• Assistant Examiner(s): Siddo, Ibrahim
• Application Number:
  US13/652,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20130278960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,498 Days
• Field of Search: 358 11- 19, 358 111- 118
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0084 Determining the necessity for prevention
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4426 involving separate means, e.g. a server, a magnetic card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3202 of communication or activity log or report
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3219 of a job status, e.g. successful execution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3223 of type information, e.g. reception or copy job
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

Selection of a send job by a user is accepted in an execution history which displays the execution history of a send job for sending data to a destination. It is determined whether the user has an authority to execute the send job displayed in the execution history. If it is determined that the user has the authority, an item for reusing a destination used when the selected send job was executed is displayed in a screen including the execution history.

Claims

1. A data transmission apparatus comprising:

a scanning unit configured to optically read a document;

a sending unit configured to execute a send job for sending image data generated by reading the document by the scanning unit;

a storage unit configured to store history data for the send job executed by the sending unit, wherein the history data includes destination information indicating a send destination of the image data;

an operation unit configured to display on a display a screen which allows a login user to select an item of history data among history data items corresponding to a plurality of send jobs; and

a control unit configured to,

in at least a condition that history data of a send job of a user different from the login user is selected by the login user via the screen and the login user has a predetermined user attribute, allow the login user to set the destination information included in the selected history data as destination information for a new send job to be executed by the sending unit, and

in at least a condition that history data of a send job of a user different from the login user is selected by the login user via the screen and the login user does not have the predetermined user attribute, restrict the login user from setting the destination information included in the selected history data as destination information for a new send job to be executed by the sending unit.

2. The data transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to determine whether an execution result of the send job of the selected history data is normal or abnormal;

and

wherein the control unit is configured to, in a case where the execution result of the send job of the selected history data is abnormal, control the operation unit to display a warning that the send job of the selected history data was executed abnormally.

3. The data transmission apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit is configured to control the operation unit to display an edit screen for editing the destination information included in the selected history data.

4. The data transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined user attribute is an administrator attribute.

5. The data transmission apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a management unit configured to manage a plurality of user attribute and manage, for each user attribute, information on whether use of at least one function is permitted or not, and

wherein the control unit is further configured to determine whether to allow the login user to set, to the data transmission apparatus, data included in the selected history data via the screen as data for a new job to be executed, based on the information managed by the management unit.

6. The data transmission apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the control unit is configured to determine whether to allow the login user to set, to the data transmission apparatus, the data included in the selected history data as the data for the new job to be executed, based on the user attribute of the login user and a function corresponding to a job type of the selected history data.

7. The data transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, in a case where a usable function in the data transmission apparatus is restricted for each user attribute and information included in the selected history data is reused by the login user, restrict/allow the login user to set the destination information included in the selected history data as the destination information for the new send job to be executed by the sending unit, based on a user attribute of the login user.

8. A method of controlling a data transmission apparatus, the method comprising:

optically reading a document;

executing a send job for sending image data generated by reading the document;

storing history data for the send job, wherein the history data includes destination information indicating a send destination of the image data;

displaying on a display a screen which allows a login user to select an item of history data among history data items corresponding to a plurality of send jobs;

in at least a condition that history data of a send job of a user different from the login user is selected by the login user via the screen and the login user has a predetermined user attribute, allowing the login user to set the destination information included in the selected history data as destination information for a new send job to be executed; and

in at least a condition that history data of a send job of a user different from the login user is selected by the login user via the screen and the login user does not have the predetermined user attribute, restricting the login user from setting the destination information included in the selected history data as destination information for a new send job to be executed.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling a data transmission apparatus, the method comprising:

optically reading a document;

executing a send job for sending image data generated by reading the document;

storing history data for the send job, wherein the history data includes destination information indicating a send destination of the image data;

displaying on a display a screen which allows a login user to select an item of history data among history data items corresponding to a plurality of send jobs;

in at least a condition that history data of a send job of a user different from the login user is selected by the login user via the screen and the login user has a predetermined user attribute, allowing the login user to set the destination information included in the selected history data as destination information for a new send job to be executed; and

in at least a condition that history data of a send job of a user different from the login user is selected by the login user via the screen and the login user does not have the predetermined user attribute, restricting the login user from setting the destination information included in the selected history data as destination information for a new send job to be executed.