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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2016
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Kunihiro Akiyoshi, Fukuoka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a hardware resource including at least a scanner device or a printer device, a display device, and processing circuitry that activates a platform program and a plurality of application programs, the platform program being used from each of the plurality of applications, the plurality of application programs including at least a secure application program, the secure application program conducting a user authentication, receives an input of a user authentication information for the user authentication, conducts the user authentication using the received user authentication information, and displays, in response to satisfying the user authentication, a screen for using a function of the image forming apparatus on the display device.