Patent ID: 8429727
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A multifunction machine including an authentication control apparatus, the authentication control apparatus comprising: plural authentication hardware to authenticate an operator with different authentication methods; a corresponding information management hardware to manage corresponding information between a mode of an authentication request and an authentication hardware to be used, to manage the corresponding information between the operator and the authentication hardware to be used and to manage the corresponding information between operator identification numbers and the authentication hardware to be used; and an authentication control hardware to determine an authentication hardware corresponding to the mode of the authentication request based on the corresponding information in response to the authentication request, to determine the authentication hardware corresponding to the operator based on the corresponding information in response to the authentication request from the operator, to determine the authentication hardware corresponding to the operator identification number based on the corresponding information in response to the authentication request and to cause the determined authentication hardware to execute the authentication for the operator; and wherein the corresponding information management hardware manages the corresponding information between a time zone and the authentication hardware to be used, and the authentication control hardware determines the authentication hardware corresponding to the time zone at which the authentication request is made based on the corresponding information in response to the authentication request from the operator.