Patent ID: 9608985
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G03G,G06F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of controlling job authority of an image forming apparatus that supports a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection with a plurality of different types of wireless devices, the method comprising: searching for at least one of a plurality of different types of wireless devices capable of a P2P connection; selecting, via a user interface, one of the at least one wireless devices and establishing a connection with the selected wireless device to receive information about the selected wireless device; storing a profile of the selected wireless device that is P2P connected to the image forming apparatus in the image forming apparatus; receiving and storing job authority information corresponding to the stored profile; if the selected wireless device requests the image forming apparatus to execute an operation, setting an extent of a job authority allowed for the selected wireless device by using the stored profile and the job authority information; and checking the job authority of the selected wireless device by the image forming apparatus, and executing the requested job when the selected wireless device has the authority to perform the requested job based on the set extent of the job authority, wherein the job authority information is information that is necessary to set the extent of the job authority of the wireless device based on a device type of the wireless device or a model group in a same kind of the device type of the wireless device, and wherein the job authority denotes an authority for the wireless device to perform a predetermined job by using the image forming apparatus, and wherein the job authority information regulates the job authority that is allowed to the selected wireless device according to a device type of the selected wireless device obtained from the profile of the selected wireless device.