Patent ID: 7730526

Claim:
A method of authenticating identifying information for a user by associating the identifying information from physical security credentials with data entered at a reproduction device and receiving a job sent to the reproduction device from a workstation, the reproduction device and the workstation forming part of a networked computer system, said method comprising the steps of: detecting identifying information from the physical security credentials presented by the user at the reproduction device; determining whether the detected identifying information exists at a reference location; if the identifying information does not exist at the reference location, authenticating the identifying information for the user by associating the identifying information with data entered by the user at the reproduction device, the entered data comprising a username and password corresponding to those by which the user is able to access the networked computer system via the workstation used to send the job to the reproduction device; and updating the reference location with the authenticated identifying information corresponding to the user and receiving at the reproduction device the job sent from the workstation.