Patent ID: 8405847
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system providing a security data among a plurality of image forming devices connected over a network, comprising: a requesting image forming device to receive user authorization information to authorize a user, and when the user is authorized based on the user authorization information, to request across the network a transmission of a list of security data corresponding to the user authorization information; and at least one responding image forming device receiving the request, in response to the request, to generate the list of any security data on the at least one responding image forming device permitted for access by the user based on the user authorization information received from the requesting image forming device and to transmit the generated list to the requesting image forming device, wherein the security data is a data file which is to be printed in which a use authority of each user is set, and which is stored in the image forming device, and the at least one responding image forming device comprises a plurality of responding image forming devices.