Patent ID: 7313699
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An authentication method in a print process that requires authentication, wherein said print process is executed by a printer driver in a client apparatus, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining, from electronic data for which an instruction to print has been issued, information identifying an application which issued the instruction to print the electronic data, wherein said information is obtained by using an application interface (API) for the printer driver; executing an authentication request for approving an output process of the electronic data based on the information identifying the application; and controlling the print process so as to permit execution of a generation of print data, using the printer driver, from the electronic data and from the output process, in response to a success of the authentication, and controlling the print process so as to stop execution of the generation of print data, using the printer driver, from the electronic data, in response to a failure of the authentication.