Patent ID: 7796290

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: a processor that executes a prescribed process; a user interface unit that displays information related to the process executed by the processor, and that receives a setting of content of the process executed by the processor; a communication unit that connects to an external device through a communication line, that obtains process content information as information related to content of a display and content of the setting in the user interface unit set by the external device, and that obtains operator information as information related to an operator of content of a process specified by the process content information; a storage unit that stores the process content information and the operator information obtained by the communication unit so as to be correlated with each other and attached with a priority for each process to be executed by the processor; a user specifying unit that specifies a user; and a controller that, in a case where the user specified by the user specifying unit corresponds to the operator specified by the operator information stored in the storage unit, extracts the process content information having the highest priority from among the process content information stored in the storage unit in relation with the operator information, controls the user interface unit to display the display content specified by the process content information, and considers content of a setting specified by the process content information.