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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2019
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Furuta, Shimosuwa-machi, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic device that performs authentication of a user where the electronic device improves the convenience of user authentication that employs an LDAP server. An electronic device is configured to connect and communicate with a server storing a plurality of types of authentication information in association with a user for a plurality of users. The electronic device includes an information cache storage that stores user authentication information that is at least a part of the authentication information stored on the server, and an authentication controller that runs a user authentication process on the basis of authentication information entered by a user, and the authentication information acquired from the server. The authentication controller updates the user authentication information stored in the cache information storage after the user authentication process on the basis of the authentication information entered by the user or the authentication information acquired from the server.