Image processing apparatus and method of controlling network access of image processing apparatus

• US 7,880,914 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2007
• Issued: 02/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tanji, Masamichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon; King Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kwan; Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US11/625,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20070171468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358/1.13, 358/1.15, 358/1.16, 715/700, 715733-747, 715/764, 715/810
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00416 Multi-level menus
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing method can include storing pieces of identification information of information processing apparatuses; instructing to change the identification information stored; displaying, when the instructing step gives the instruction to change the identification information, the pieces of identification information of the information processing apparatuses stored; and searching for information processing apparatuses on the network. The method can also include displaying pieces of identification information of the information processing apparatuses found; and changing identification information selected from the pieces of identification information displayed in the first displaying step into identification information selected from the pieces of identification information displayed in the second displaying step.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus connected to a network, comprising:

a storage unit adapted to store a plurality of pieces of identification information of a plurality of information processing apparatuses;

an instruction unit adapted to instruct to change the identification information stored in said storage unit;

a first display unit adapted to display, when said instruction unit gives the instruction to change the identification information, the plurality of pieces of identification information of the plurality of information processing apparatuses stored in said storage unit;

a search unit adapted to search for information processing apparatuses, other than said image processing apparatus, on the network;

a second display unit adapted to display a plurality of pieces of identification information of the information processing apparatuses found by said search unit; and

a change unit adapted to change identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed by said first display unit into identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed by said second display unit;

wherein said storage unit stores settings associated with a plurality of types of setting items for one of the plurality of pieces of identification information, and said image processing apparatus further comprises a unit adapted to select, when said change unit changes the identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed by said first display unit, whether or not the selected identification information is changed for all the plurality of types of setting items for the selected identification information.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said selection unit selects an item to be changed of the plurality of types of setting items for the identification information.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one of the types of setting items is an IP filter setting, a MAC filter setting, an IPsec setting, or a setting registered in an address book.

4. An image processing method in an image processing apparatus connected to a network, comprising:

a storage step of storing a plurality of pieces of identification information of a plurality of information processing apparatuses;

an instruction step of instructing to change the identification information stored in the storage step;

a first display step of displaying on a first display unit, when the instruction step instructs to change the identification information, the plurality of pieces of identification information of the plurality of information processing apparatuses stored in the storage step;

a search step of searching for information processing apparatuses, other than said image processing apparatus, on the network;

a second display step of displaying on a second display unit a plurality of pieces of identification information of the information processing apparatuses found in the search step; and

a change step of changing identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed, on the first display unit, in the first display step into identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed, on the second display unit, in the second display step;

wherein said storage step stores settings associated with a plurality of types of setting items for one of the plurality of pieces of identification information, and said method further comprises a selecting step that selects, when said change step changes the identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed, on the first display unit, by said first display step, whether or not the selected identification information is changed for all the plurality of types of setting items for the selected identification information.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including a program which, when executed by a computer connected to a network, causes the computer to execute an image processing method, said method comprising:

a storage step of storing a plurality of pieces of identification information of a plurality of information processing apparatuses;

an instruction step of instructing to change the identification information stored in the storage step;

a first display step of displaying on a first display unit, when the instruction step instructs to change the identification information, the plurality of pieces of identification information of the plurality of information processing apparatuses stored in the storage step;

a search step of searching for information processing apparatuses, other than said computer, on the network;

a second display step of displaying on a second display unit a plurality of pieces of identification information of the information processing apparatuses found in the search step; and

a change step of changing identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed, on the first display unit, in the first display step into identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed, on the second display unit, in the second display step;

wherein said storage step stores settings associated with a plurality of types of setting items for one of the plurality of pieces of identification information, and said method further comprises a selecting step that selects, when said change step changes the identification information selected from the plurality of pieces of identification information displayed, on the first display unit, by said first display step, whether or not the selected identification information is changed for all the plurality of types of setting items for the selected identification information.