Patent ID: 8218180
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image receiving unit configured to receive image data from a device which is connected to the image forming apparatus through a communication network; a sender identifying unit configured to identify information of a sender of the received image data; a management information storing unit configured to store management information for controlling at least one of a transmission operation for transmitting an image scanned from a printout and a copy operation for copying the image scanned from the printout; a determining information storing unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of determining information to determine whether the management information is attached to the image data received from the sender, each piece of the determining information corresponding to each of a plurality of pieces of information of senders; a determining unit configured to determine whether the management information is attached to the image data based on the determining information corresponding to the information of sender identified by the sender identifying unit; and an outputting unit configured to output the image data to which the management information is attached when the determining unit determines that the management information is attached to the image data.