Patent ID: 8599390

Claim:
An information processing device configured to be connected with an image forming device, comprising: a processor configured to perform: detecting which connection mode of a local connection and a network connection is established between the information processing device and the image forming device; installing into the information processing device a driver for controlling the image forming device to perform an image forming operation in one security-related operation mode of: a normal mode in which the driver controls the image forming device to perform the image forming operation without user certification, and a secure mode in which the driver controls the image forming device to perform the image forming operation after successful user certification; setting, when the detected connection mode is the local connection, the normal mode as a default security-related operation mode in such an unchangeable manner as to maintain the normal mode whenever the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device; determining, when the detected connection mode is the network connection, whether to set the secure mode as the default security-related operation mode; setting, when determining not to set the secure mode as the default security-related operation mode, the normal mode as the default security-related operation mode in such a changeable manner as to determine whether to maintain the normal mode each time the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device; determining, when determining to set the secure mode as the default security-related operation mode, whether to set the secure mode in such an unchangeable manner as to maintain the secure mode whenever the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device; setting, when determining to set the secure mode in such the unchangeable manner as to maintain the secure mode whenever the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device, the secure mode as the default security-related operation mode in such the unchangeable manner as to maintain the secure mode whenever the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device; and setting, when determining not to set the secure mode in such the unchangeable manner as to maintain the secure mode whenever the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device, the secure mode as the default security-related operation mode in such a changeable manner as to determine whether to maintain the secure mode each time the image forming operation is performed by the image forming device.