Patent ID: 9575701
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus which executes a job in response to an instruction from a communication terminal, comprising: at least one CPU, the at least one CPU configured to execute instructions stored in a memory to cause the image forming apparatus to: establish a wireless communication by using a proximity wireless communication or establish the wireless communication by not using the proximity wireless communication; determine whether the established wireless communication, by which a request to execute a scan job is received from the communication terminal, is established by using the proximity wireless communication; and control to, when it is determined that the wireless communication is established by using the proximity wireless communication, reject a request to execute other scan jobs from communication terminals other than the communication terminal until receiving a connection release request from the communication terminal, and when it is determined that the wireless communication is not established by using the proximity wireless communication, reject a request to execute other scan jobs from communication terminals other than the communication terminal until execution of the scan job is completed.