DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR

• US 20190028609A1
• Filed: 08/29/2018
• Published: 01/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Morita, Hiroyasu
• Granted Patent: US 10,609,253 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/46 by designing passwords or checking the strength of passwords
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• 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: H04N 1/4406 Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity mechanisms actuated y cards, PIN or the like in apparatus for dispensing G07F7/08

Abstract

A data communication apparatus that is capable of improving operability when inputting authentication information. An authentication unit accepts authentication information inputted when a user logs in to the data communication apparatus and authenticates the user based on the accepted authentication information. A designation unit designates a file transmission destination that is inputted by the authenticated user. A transmission unit transmits a file to the transmission destination inputted. A registration unit registers the transmission destination of the file. A control unit prohibits registration of the authentication information at the time of registration of the transmission destination of the file when the accepted authentication information is used for file transmission, and permits registration of the authentication information at the time of registration of the transmission destination of the file when the inputted authentication information is not used for file transmission.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A data communication apparatus comprising:

one or more memories that store a set of instructions; and

one or more processors that execute the instructions causing the data communication apparatus to;

receive a transmission destination for a file transmission;

set authentication information required for the file transmission;

perform the file transmission using the received transmission destination and the set authentication information; and

register, in a case where the authentication information input for a login to the data communication apparatus is set for the file transmission, the received transmission destination without registering the set authentication information.

12. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the instructions further cause the data communication apparatus to, in a case where the authentication information input at the time of an input of the transmission destination is set for the file transmission, register the received transmission destination and the set authentication information.

13. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a scanner for scanning an original image,

wherein, in the file transmission, a file corresponding to the original image scanned by the scanner is transmitted to the transmission destination.

14. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the transmission destination includes at least one of address information, host name information and folder information.

15. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the set authentication information is used for authentication in a file server corresponding to the transmission destination.

16. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the set authentication information is a password.

17. A method of controlling a data communication apparatus comprising:

receiving a transmission destination for a file transmission;

setting authentication information required for the file transmission;

performing the file transmission using the received transmission destination and the set authentication information; and

registering, in a case where the authentication information input for a login to the data communication apparatus is set for the file transmission, the received transmission destination without registering the set authentication information.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising, in a case where the authentication information input at the time of an input of the transmission destination is set for the file transmission, registering the received transmission destination and the set authentication information.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the data communication apparatus comprises a scanner for scanning an original image, and

wherein, in the file transmission, a file corresponding to the original image scanned by the scanner is transmitted to the transmission destination.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the transmission destination includes at least one of address information, host name information and folder information.

21. The method according to claim 17, wherein the set authentication information is used for authentication in a file server corresponding to the transmission destination.

22. The method according to claim 17, wherein the set authentication information is a password.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of controlling a data communication apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a transmission destination for a file transmission;

setting authentication information required for the file transmission;

performing the file transmission using the received transmission destination and the set authentication information; and

registering, in a case where the authentication information input for a login to the data communication apparatus is set for the file transmission, the received transmission destination without registering the set authentication information.