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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2019
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Arturo Becerra, Los Angeles, CA (US);
KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Displaying an authentication interface on an operation panel associated with a printing device, the operation panel including a plurality of authentication areas. Receiving a user authentication request. Detecting a particular authentication pattern associated with the user authentication request. Retrieving a registered authentication pattern associated with the user. Comparing the particular authentication pattern with the registered authentication pattern. Determining, based on the comparing, whether the user authentication request is authorized. If the user authentication request is authorized, retrieving a first electronic document associated with the user, and printing the first electronic document. If the user authentication request is not authorized, determining whether the first electronic document includes a confidential object, obtaining, in response to determining the first electronic document includes a confidential object, an alternative object associated with the confidential object, and generating a second electronic document by replacing the confidential object with the alternative object on the first electronic document.