Patent ID: 9396315
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of performing an image forming operation using user information, the method comprising: receiving domain information of a user and performing user authentication using the received domain information; receiving a request for the image forming operation after successfully performing the user authentication; querying a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) server using the domain information used for the user authentication to acquire an email address necessary for performing the image forming operation; performing the image forming operation; and sending a result of the image forming operation to the email address acquired by querying the LDAP server, wherein the domain information of the user is information of an organization to which the user belongs, wherein the image forming operation is an operation of transmitting a scanned imaqe via the email address, and wherein the performing of the image forming operation further comprises: which is acquired by querying the LDAP server, as a sender address.