Patent ID: 7835019

Claim:
An image forming apparatus having a hardware resource used in image forming processing and an application executing the image forming processing, the image forming apparatus performing authentication relating to the execution of the image forming processing, the image forming apparatus comprising: a character string display part configured to display a character string prompting the authentication needed to perform a type of the image forming processing, the character string excluding the type of the image forming processing; and a type character string display part configured to display the type of the image forming processing on a same display as the character string display part, the type of the image forming processing having a usage restriction which is indicated in a notification, by the application executing the image forming processing, of a usage restriction for the type of the image forming processing; and a system control part configured to independently control the character string display part and the type character string display part, the system control part generating the same character string even when generating a different type character string based on a newly available type of the image forming processing or an indication in the notification of a different usage restriction for the type of the image forming processing.