Patent ID: 7639379
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium; a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a web server provided on a wide area network; a data acquiring unit that acquires web data from the web server corresponding to a specified address via the communicating unit; a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit; a history data memory that stores history data indicating web data based on which the image forming unit has formed the images; an identifying unit that identifies, based on the history data, whether or not the web data is of a type based on which the images have been formed previously; and a determining unit that determines not to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit, if the identifying unit identifies that the web data is of the type based on which the images have been formed previously; wherein the control unit prohibits the image forming unit from forming the images based on the web data when the determining unit determines that the images should not be formed based on the web data.