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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
May. 10, 2010
Satoru Nishio, Chiba, JP;
Satoru Nishio, Chiba, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an authentication information reception unit configured to receive first authentication information input to the image forming apparatus, an authentication control unit configured to send the first authentication information to a first authentication apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus via a network and cause the first authentication apparatus to carry out a first authentication based on the first authentication information, and an authentication information recording unit configured to record, when the first authentication based on the first authentication information has succeeded, the first authentication information therein as second authentication information. In the image forming apparatus, the authentication control unit carries out, in a case where the first authentication apparatus is not available, a second authentication based on the second authentication information recorded in the authentication information recording unit in lieu of the first authentication based on the first authentication information.