Patent ID: 7617539
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing device comprising: a storage unit having multiple storage regions, and adapted to store document data in the storage regions; a security settings unit adapted to set settings relating to security as to the storage regions, wherein the setting relating to security include setting to restrict a sending address of the document data stored in the storage region and to set a notification address to notify for an authorization request as a setting relating to security; a specifying unit adapted to specify the document data to be sent externally from the document data stored in the storage unit; a control unit adapted to determine whether the storage region in which the document data specified by the specifying unit is stored is a storage region in which settings relating to security have been set by the security settings unit, and to decide based on results of such determining whether to permit or prohibit sending of the document data; and a sending permission request notifying unit adapted to send a permission request of the document data to the notification address in a case that the sending address of the document data stored in the storage region is a sending address which has been restricted by the security settings unit.