Patent ID: 8773705
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a data transmission unit; a user interface unit to receive information relating a user-selected destination where data is to be transmitted; and a controller to determine whether the data is enabled to be transmitted to the user-selected destination received via the user interface unit based on a security policy of the image forming apparatus, wherein security policy modes include a transmission-possible mode and a transmission-block mode, wherein the controller determines whether to enable the data to be transmitted via the data transmission unit to the user-selected destination based on if the security policy is in the transmission-possible mode or the transmission-block mode and if the user-selected destination corresponds to one of a plurality of destination addresses associated with the security policy, wherein if the security policy is in a transmission-possible mode, the security policy accesses a data base associated with the transmission-possible mode, wherein if the security policy is in a transmission-block mode, the security policy accesses the data base associated with the transmission-block mode, wherein, when the security policy is in the transmission-block mode, the controller enables the data to be transmitted to the user-selected destination if the user-selected destination does not correspond to any one of at least a subset of the destination addresses associated with the security policy, and wherein the image forming apparatus performs printing and scanning operations.