Patent ID: 9041964
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a communication unit performing communication with an external terminal used by a user via a network; a scanning unit scanning a document image to obtain image data; an issuing unit issuing an image data number identifying the image data; a storage unit mapping and storing the image data and the image data number; a control unit controlling to notify the image data number to the user; an information receiving unit receiving the image data number, and uploading destination identification information indicating an upload destination of the image data, and login information for logging into the upload destination from the external terminal via the communication unit at a timing after the storage stored the image data and the image data number; an identification unit identifying the upload destination based on the upload destination identification information when the information receiving unit received the image data number, the upload destination identification information, and the login information; an authentication unit performing an authenticating process required to perform an authentication of whether or not to give access to the upload destination indentified by the identification unit based on the login information received by the information receiving unit; and a communication control unit that reads out the image data corresponding to the image data number received by the information receiving unit from the image data stored by the storage unit when the access to the upload destination is permitted in the authenticating process by the authentication unit, and transmits the corresponding image data to the upload destination.