Patent ID: 8687209

Claim:
A processing apparatus comprising: a processing unit that executes a requested process; and a first registration unit that registers therein device identification information which identifies another device, in advance, wherein if a request for the process is received from said another device, the processing unit complies with the request without authenticating a user who makes the request on condition that the device identification information of said another device is registered in the first registration unit and the user is authenticated by said another device in advance; a second registration unit that registers therein a stored user setting which is used when the user executes the process with the processing unit, in association with user identification information for identifying the user, wherein if the user identification information of the user who makes the request is registered in the second registration unit in a case where the request for the process is received from said another device and where the device identification information is registered in the first registration unit, the processing unit executes the process based on the stored user setting which is registered in the second registration unit in association with the user identification information, wherein said another device is an image forming apparatus.