Patent ID: 7519302
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image processing system having at least two image processing apparatuses connected by a network, each image processing apparatus, comprising: a storing unit storing a job in a manner linked to information specifying a user; an authentication unit accepting input of information specifying the user and authenticating a login of the user whether to be allowed or not by using the information specifying the user; a notifying unit in a case where said authentication unit authenticates that the login of the user is allowed, notifying all of the different image processing apparatuses of the information specifying the authenticated user; a user information receiving unit receiving the information specifying the authenticated user notified from the notifying unit of another image processing apparatus; a job information transmitting unit, in a case where said user information receiving unit receives the information specifying said authenticated user and in a case where the job linked to the information specifying the user is stored in said storing unit, transmitting the information related to the job to the image processing apparatus providing a notification of the information specifying said authenticated user; a job information receiving unit receiving the information relating to the job linked to the user authenticated in said authenticating unit from the job information transmitting unit of the different image processing apparatus; a selecting unit, in a case where said job information receiving unit receives the information relating to the job linked to said authenticated user, displaying the information for specifying the job linked to the authenticated user based on the information related to the job and accepting selection of the job; a requesting unit transmitting a transfer request for the selected job to the different image processing apparatus storing the job linked to said authenticated user selected in said selecting unit; a transfer request receiving unit receiving the transfer request for the job linked to said authenticated user stored in said storing unit that is transmitted from the requesting unit of the different image processing apparatus; a job transfer unit, in a case where said transfer request receiving unit receives the transfer request for the job linked to said authenticated user, transferring a requested job to the image processing apparatus transmitting the transfer request for the job linked to said authenticated user, the image processing apparatus providing the notification of the information specifying said authenticated user; and an obtaining unit obtaining the job linked to said authenticated user that is transferred from the job transfer unit of the different image processing apparatus.