US 12,001,738 B2
Image forming apparatus and determination method in processing apparatus for determining whether authentication information satisfies authentication requirement
Takuya Koujiro, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on May 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/202,984.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-088680 (JP), filed on May 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0384996 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1238 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1222 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
one or more controllers; and
a memory storing one or more computer-readable instructions and authentication information of a plurality of users, wherein
the one or more controllers are configured to execute the one or more computer-readable instructions stored in the memory to:
set, for each user of the plurality of users, an authentication requirement for the authentication information of the user;
authenticate the user based on the authentication information of the user; and
perform a determination as to whether the authentication information of the user being authenticated satisfies the authentication requirement corresponding to the user,
set a time for the determination,
perform the determination at a time set as the time for the determination,
determine whether to perform the determination at a time of login,
disallow, in a case that the determination is performed at the time of login, the user to log in when the authentication information of the user being authenticated does not satisfy the authentication requirement corresponding to the user at the time of login,
determine whether to perform the determination according to an authentication method, and
omit performing, in a case that the determination is performed at the time of login, the determination for the user when a user being authenticated uses the authentication method without the determination.