Canon U.s.a., Inc.

Canon Information and Imaging Solutions, Inc.

Jiuyuan Ge

Lance Yiuchong Leung

Song Sheng Cang

Nigel Patrick Brady

Kosuke Nakashima

Jiayin Peng

Konstantin Uroskin

Anthony Louis DeMartini

Royce Earle Slick

Craig Mazzagatte

Daniel Doran

Manuel Pearson Ferreira

Bryan Heller

Aarti Malpani

An image processing apparatus and method is provided. The image processing apparatus has one or more processors and a memory that stores instructions for execution by the one or more processors. Upon execution of the instructions, the image processing apparatus is configured receive, from a credential source, a credential having a domain identifier identifying an authentication domain and authentication data used to authenticate with authentication domain and parse at least a portion of the domain identifier to obtain information identifying the authentication domain with which to authenticate the credential. The image processing apparatus is automatically reconfigured to authenticate with the identified authentication domain when it is determined, based on the information identifying the authentication domain, that a currently configured authentication domain is different from the identified authentication domain and the authentication data of the received credential is transmitted to the reconfigured domain for domain authentication processing.

Method and system for automatically selecting an authentication domain

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include, after receiving at least a portion of a file at a computing system, obtaining information about the file at a first time. First information is stored in a data structure, the first information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the first time. Then, information about the file at a second time after the first time is obtained. Second information is stored in a memory of the computing system, the second information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the second time. It is determined whether the second information matches the first information. In response to determining that the second information matches the first information, the file is sent from the computing system to a predetermined destination. In some embodiments, the file comprises a facsimile communication.

System and method for forwarding a file

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include maintaining, at a mobile computing device, a record associated with a print job submitted to a first printing device, the record including information for locating the first printing device and information that identifies the print job. Some embodiments include sending, from the mobile computing device to a second printing device, a message that includes the information for locating the first printing device and the information that identifies the print job, the message comprising a request to execute the print job at the second printing device. Some embodiments include receiving the message from the mobile computing device, sending a request for the print job, receiving the print job, and executing a printing operation based on the print job.

System and method for printing

An image processing device and control method that includes a processor and a memory storing a set of instructions that, when executed by the processor, controls the image processing device to receive a first data object representing a software update to be applied to the at least one peripheral device coupled to the image processing device. A communication mode switch message is generated to change a mode of communicating data between the at least one peripheral device and the image processing device and communicate the communication mode switch message to the at least one peripheral device. Currently active communication mode is disabled and a previously disabled communication pathway of the at least one peripheral device is activated as an update mode. The data representing the software update is transmitted via the update mode to apply the software update to the at least one peripheral device.

Apparatus, system and method for updating a peripheral connected to image processing device

A system and method of authorizing one or more features of an application is provided. A first application having a first set of features that control one or more functionality of an image processing device and are always available and a second set of features controlling functionality different from that controlled by the first set of features and which require authorization to be operable. A second application executing on the image processing device includes data representing authorization parameters to selectively authorize one or more of the features in the second set of features. In response to detecting, by the second application, that a feature activation service is registered in an operating system of the image processing device by the first application, the second application communicates the authorization parameter data to the first application to authorize and make operable the one or more features of the second set of features.

Apparatus, system and method for activating features of an image processing device

A system and method are provided including one or more processors and one or more computer-readable media coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operation including performing, at an image processing device, a login process wherein access to one or more resources on the image processing device is granted based on a credential associated with a user and receiving a request to perform a scan and send process is received at the image processing device, the request comprising instructions for scanning a physical document and sending an electronic document representing the scanned physical document to a destination system. The scan process is initiated and a data object including data representing job data and the credential associated with the use is generated. The send process using the generated data object is executed as a background process on the image processing device and a subsequent user is able to access the image processing device and use at least one resource of the image processing device simultaneously.

Apparatus, system and method for managing background processing on an image processing device

A mobile data processing method, in which a request for performing a data processing job by a data processing device is initiated from a user of a mobile device. A device code of the mobile device in association with the user is transmitted to the data processing device. The user is authenticated by the data processing device. Whether the device code of the mobile device is identifiable by the data processing device is determined. An entry of the data processing job in association with the user and the device code of the mobile device is created in the data processing device if the device code of the mobile device is identified by the data processing device. The data processing job is executed if the entry of the data processing job is created and stored in association with the user and the device in the data processing device.

Mobile data processing having secured association with multifunction device

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include generating credentials for accessing a transmission service; sending, from a first application to a second application, the credentials and a request to perform operations related to a scan job; receiving, at the first application from the second application, credentials from the second application, and a request to access the transmission service; determining whether the credentials from the second application are valid; and in response to determining that the credentials from the second application are valid, getting a file from the second application using the transmission service; and sending the file to a destination.

System and method for controlling access to a server on an image processing device

Methods, devices, and computer-readable storage media are provided. In some embodiments, a server receives from a browser on a client a request to access a first web page. In response to receiving the request, the server sends to the client a second web page including an embedded executable program configured to run within the browser on the client, wherein the embedded executable program, when executed on the client, is operable to obtain a ticket-granting ticket stored on the client and send the ticket-granting ticket to the server. The server receives the ticket-granting ticket from the embedded executable program on the client. Furthermore, the server determines whether a user associated with the ticket-granting ticket is authorized to access the first web page. In response to determining that the user is authorized to access the first web page, the server grants the requested access to the first web page.

System and method for controlling access to a resource

A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for authenticating a computing device are provided. According to embodiments of the invention, a first computing device generates a message using first secret data and second secret data, the first secret data for authenticating to a second computing device, the second secret data for authenticating to a third computing device. The first computing device sends the message to the second computing device. In some embodiments, challenge-response authentication is implemented. For example, the first computing device receives a challenge from the second computing device and generates the message based at least in part on the challenge. The second computing device compares local information with information received from the first computing device. The first computing device can thereby be authenticated to the second computing device. Furthermore, the first computing device can be authenticated to the third computing device by a similar process.

Method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for authenticating a computing device

A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are provided. Embodiments of the invention include receiving notification of a log-in event associated with a first login session wherein a user is authorized to access a resource of a computing system based on a credential. During the first login session and in response to determining the credential is valid, a second login session is established by granting the user access to a resource of an application associated with the computing system. During the first login session and in response to receiving information indicating an event has occurred, the second login session is terminated such that the user does not have access to the resource of the application. And during the first login session and in response to determining again that the credential is valid, a third login session is established by granting the user access to a resource of the application.

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