Patent ID: 7773241
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image-forming device comprising: an image-forming unit that executes an image forming process to form an image on paper; an authentication data entering unit that receives authentication data used to authenticate a user; a permission determining unit that determines an execution of the image forming process with prescribed data specified as confidential on the basis of the authentication data; a controller that controls the image-forming unit to execute the image forming process with the prescribed data when the permission determining unit has determined the execution; an interruption resolution determining unit that determines whether an interruption cause has been resolved when the image forming process with the prescribed data is interrupted; a re-enter determining unit that determines whether the authentication data has been re-entered via the authentication data entering unit when the interruption resolution determining unit has determined that the interruption cause has been resolved; a timer that measures an elapsed time period from an interruption of the image forming process to a resolution of the interruption cause; and an identification unit that identifies a type of the interruption cause, wherein the controller executes a conditioned resume process for requiring a re-entry of the authentication data to the authentication data entering unit and then resuming the image forming process with the prescribed data, when the identified interruption cause is a first type, the controller further comprises a first determining unit that determines whether the elapsed time period has reached a predetermined time period, when the identified interruption cause is a second type different from the first type, the controller executes an unconditional resume process for resuming the image forming process with the prescribed data without requiring the re-entry of the authentication data, when the elapsed time period is less than the predetermined time period, and the controller executes the conditioned resume process, when the elapsed time period is more than or equal to the predetermined time period.