Patent ID: 9436423
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A cloud server for a cloud service, comprising: a hardware processor configured to: set an information device designated to a target device use of which is restricted; set, as at least one authorized account with which login operation is allowed and with which use of the information device is allowed, either one or both of a guest account for the information device and any one of user accounts identifying users already registered in the cloud server depending on settings entered, and to set constraints in use of the information device for each authorized account; permit a user who has logged into the cloud server with the authorized account to use the information device without exceeding constraints set for the authorized account; and correlate, when a user who has logged into the cloud server with the user account not set for the authorized account enters the guest account, the user account with the guest account; wherein the hardware processor permits the user who has logged into the cloud server with the user account not set for the authorized account to use the information device without exceeding constraints set for the quest account, provided that the quest account is correlated with the user account.