Patent ID: 9179040
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus communicable with a remote computer over a network, the image forming apparatus comprising: a storage unit having a plurality of user folders as subfolders of a specific folder, each user folder corresponding to a user; an authentication unit configured to perform an authentication process for authenticating a user; an operation unit configured, in a case where a user is authenticated by the authentication unit, to allow the authenticated user to input an instruction and to display an operation screen, the operation screen including information for executing a function of the image forming apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive, from a first user who uses the remote computer, a request for displaying the subfolders of the specific folder, the first user being authenticated by the authentication unit; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information indicative of the plurality of user folders corresponding to at least the first user and a second user from among the plurality of user folders to the remote computer, in response to reception of the request, the second user being a different user from the first user and not being authenticated by the authentication unit, wherein the operation unit is configured to display, when the instruction is input by the first user to display the subfolders of the specific folder, the operation screen which includes information indicative of a user folder corresponding to the first user and does not include information indicative of a user folder corresponding to the second user.