Patent ID: 8625122
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An authentication server which (i) communicates with a multifunction apparatus including a web browser section and (ii) carries out an authentication process for a user who operates the multifunction apparatus, the web browser section carrying out, by sending/receiving data to/from an application which is executed on a web server device, a cooperation process with the application, comprising: a user authentication section for carrying out authentication for the user by (i) receiving, from the multifunction apparatus, login information entered into the multifunction apparatus and (ii) checking whether or not the login information matches user authentication information registered in advance; a Cookie information receiving section for receiving Cookie information from the multifunction apparatus with which the authentication of the user, carried out by the user authentication section, was successful, which Cookie information has been transmitted from the web server device to the web browser section of the multifunction apparatus; a Cookie information storage section for storing the Cookie information received by the Cookie information receiving section in such a way that the Cookie information and user identification information for identifying the user authenticated by the user authentication section are associated with each other; and a Cookie information sending section for, in a case where the authentication of the user, carried out by the user authentication section, was successful, (i) reading out, from the Cookie information storage section, the Cookie information associated with the user identification information for identifying the user and (ii) sending the Cookie information read out from the Cookie information storage section to the multifunction apparatus from which the user authentication section has received the login information.