Patent ID: 8314958
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, a protected image that has been subjected to a protection process, and receive, from a content management apparatus, an access ticket corresponding to a user that has issued a print instruction for the protected image; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the access ticket received by said receiving unit includes permission for the protected image; a processing unit configured to remove protection implemented on the protected image received by said receiving unit, to carry out printing the image from which the protection is removed, to re-implement protection on the image from which the protection is removed, and to cause a storing apparatus to store the re-implemented image, when it is determined that the received access ticket includes the permission by said determining unit; and a deleting unit configured to remove the protection implemented on the protected image received by said receiving unit, to carry out printing the image from which the protection is removed, and to delete the image from which the protection is removed in order not to cause the storing apparatus to store the image from which the protection is removed, when it is determined that the received access ticket does not include the permission by said determining unit.