US 11,947,849 B2
Printing apparatus receiving authentication information, method for controlling the same, server apparatus having an authentication function, method for controlling the same, and storage medium
Naoya Kakutani, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/583,890.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-012780 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0244896 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/1238 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server with which a first printing apparatus and a second printing apparatus communicate via a network, the server comprising:
a controller having one or more processors and one or more memories, the controller being configured:
to receive first information from the first printing apparatus that has received a user authentication request and receive second information different from the first information from the second printing apparatus that has received a user authentication request; and
to transmit, to the first printing apparatus, one or a plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the first information for logging in to the first printing apparatus, and transmit, to the second printing apparatus, one or a plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the second information for logging in to the second printing apparatus and including at least one type different from the one or plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the first information,
wherein the controller receives the first information in a case where a login screen is displayed on an operation unit of the first printing apparatus.