Patent ID: 9444962
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An information processing unit connected to a power supply control part that controls a transition between an energy saving mode of reducing power consumption and a normal mode of carrying out information processing and controlling a user interface part provided for carrying out an operation concerning the information processing, the information processing unit comprising: a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon; and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to, determine, when receiving information through a reading process from a plurality of IC cards by a IC card reader, whether a plurality of users, each user associated with a respective IC card, identified by the information has transition authority for a transition from the energy saving mode to the normal mode, the information includes send a transition request for carrying out a transition from the energy saving mode to the normal mode to the power supply control part based on the determination result that at least one of the plurality of users has the transition authority; carry out a transition to the normal mode in response to the transition request and, when authentication of the determined user is successful, display on the user interface part a display screen page for receiving an operation concerning the information processing, the display screen page displaying the image processing services that the determined user is authorized to use and not displaying the image processing services that the determined user is not authorized to use; and determine, when there are a plurality of users determined to have the transition authorities, the one user having the highest signal strength based on the information concerning the signal strengths of the respective users, and only authenticate the user determined to have the highest signal strength of the plurality of users determined to have the transition authorities, and display, when authentication of the thus determined user is successful, on the user interface part the display screen page for receiving the operation concerning the information processing, the display screen page displaying the image processing services that the thus determined user is authorized to use and not displaying the image processing services that the thus determined user is not authorized to use.