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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2011
Takeo Shimizu, Osaka, JP;
Takeo Shimizu, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an authentication unit that can execute a login process and a logout process; an operation unit that receives an instruction for the logout process from the user; a user attribute storage unit that stores the identification information of a non-logged-out user; a determination unit that determines whether a logged-in user, who is a user for whom the login process is executed by the authentication unit, is the non-logged-out user, based on the identification information stored in the user attribute storage unit; and a forced logout processing unit that, in a case in which the logged-in user is determined to be the non-logged-out user by the determination unit, instructs the authentication unit to execute the logout process when a predefined particular process among the plurality of processes is executed and completed by the processing unit.