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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2022
Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventor:

Tetsuya Okuno, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 3/1203 (2013.01); G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01); H04N 1/346 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2143 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to manage the printing device on the basis of user information of a corresponding user. The controller further performs: (a) acquiring individual information identifying the printing device; (b) acquiring initialization identification information used for determining whether an information initialization has been performed on a specific printing device identified by the individual information acquired in the (a) acquiring; (c) determining, on the basis of the individual information acquired in the (a) acquiring and the initialization identification information acquired in the (b) acquiring, whether the information initialization has been performed on the specific printing device along with transfer of ownership of the specific printing device from a first user to a second user; and (d) prohibiting, in response to determining in the (c) determining that the information initialization has been performed, the second user from accessing the user information of the first user.


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