Data processing apparatus, control method, and program

• US 9,912,830 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2015
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Mizuno, Takafumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollack, Melvin H
• Application Number:
  US14/790,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20160037015A1
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: 709203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00424 using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00435 arranged in a predetermined sequence, e.g. using next and previous buttons
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00514 for individual users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00925 Inhibiting an operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32112 in a separate computer file, document page or paper sheet, e.g. a fax cover sheet H04N1/32122 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/444 to a particular document or image or part thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network

Abstract

A data processing apparatus determines whether or not administrator authority of a user is set, and whether access is made locally or from the network. When the access is made locally, even if the user has the administrator authority, folders of all users are not displayed. The folders of all users are displayed only when the user having the administrator authority accesses from the network.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external device including a display unit via a network, the data processing apparatus comprising:

an operation unit;

a storage unit configured to store a file in such a manner that the file is associated with a user;

a first reception unit configured to receive a request, transmitted by the external device based on an instruction of a first user having administrator authority, for transmitting information of a file stored in the storage unit via the network;

a second reception unit configured to receive, based on an instruction of the first user, a request for displaying information of a file stored in the storage unit from the operation unit;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit, based on the first reception unit receiving the request, information of a file associated with the first user and information of a file associated with a second user to the external device; and

a control unit configured to perform control, based on the second reception unit receiving the request, to display the information of the file associated with the first user without displaying the information of the file associated with the second user on a display unit in the data processing apparatus.

2. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information of a file is a name of the file, a type of the file, a data size of the file, or an update date and time of the file.

3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second user is a user not having the administrator authority,

wherein the first reception unit is further configured to be capable of receiving a request, transmitted by the external device based on an instruction of the second user, -for displaying information of a file stored in the storage unit, and

wherein, based on the first reception unit receiving the request, transmitted by the external device based on the instruction of the second user, for transmitting information of a file stored in the storage unit, the transmitting unit transmits the information of the file associated with the second user without transmitting the information of the file associated with the first user to the external device.

4. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a printing unit configured to perform printing of the file associated with the first user, based on the displayed information of the file associated with the first user, based on reception of a printing instruction from the first user via the operation unit.

5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reading unit configured to read a document,

wherein, based on reception of a document reading instruction from the first user via the operation unit, image data of the document read by the reading unit is stored in the storage unit as a file in such a manner that the file is associated with the first user.

6. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the request for displaying information of a file stored in the storage unit, which is received by the second reception unit, is a request for displaying information of a file stored in a designated folder.

7. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file stored in the storage unit is stored in a memory area accessible from the external device using a file sharing protocol.

8. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information of the file associated with the first user is displayed on the operation unit controlled by the control unit together with a button for executing a function of the data processing apparatus.

11. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a printing unit, wherein the control unit selects, based on the instruction of the first user, a file to be printed, from the information displayed by the display unit, and controls the printing unit to print the selected file.

9. A control method for a data processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external device including a display unit via a network, the data processing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store a file in such a manner that the file is associated with a user, the control method comprising:

receiving, as first receiving, a request, transmitted by the external device based on an instruction of a first user having administrator authority, for transmitting information of a file stored in the storage unit via the network;

receiving, as second receiving, based on an instruction of the first user, a request for displaying information of a file stored in the storage unit from an operation unit included in the data processing apparatus;

transmitting, based on reception of the request by the first receiving, information of a file associated with the first user and information of a file associated with a second user to the external device, and

performing control, based on reception of the request by the second receiving, the operation unit to display the information of the file associated with the first user without displaying the information of the file associated with the second user on a display unit in the data processing apparatus.

10. A non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the control method according to claim 9.