Authentication Print Interface Mode Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image forming devices do not allow users to easily pause or stop a print job after successful user authentication, requiring separate login operations for interacting with the device interface, which complicates the process and reduces user convenience.
Innovation Solution
An image forming device that performs user authentication using a predetermined authentication unit, allowing the user interface to switch to a login mode after successful authentication, enabling users to input instructions for pausing or stopping print jobs and improving operability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If user authentication is performed to ensure information security before printout, then information security is improved, but the operation process becomes more complex and user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the authentication process with the login process. When a user performs authentication to start a print job, the system simultaneously completes the login process, making the user interface operable. This combination eliminates the need for separate authentication and login steps, resolving the contradiction between maintaining security and simplifying operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs the login process in advance as part of the authentication flow. By preparing the user interface state beforehand during authentication, the system ensures that the interface becomes operable immediately after authentication succeeds, without requiring additional login steps that would complicate the process.
2Reliability
If separate login operation is required to make user interface operable after authentication, then information security is maintained, but productivity and user convenience deteriorate due to additional steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the authentication process with the login process into a single unified operation. When the user authenticates to initiate printing, the system simultaneously completes login, making the user interface operable. This merger eliminates redundant steps and improves productivity while maintaining security requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication process serves multiple functions simultaneously: it verifies user identity for security purposes and triggers the login state that enables user interface operations. This multi-functionality approach eliminates the need for separate login operations, enhancing both security and productivity.
3Reliability
If user interface is restricted before authentication, then information security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates as users cannot interact with the device
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs the login process preliminarily during authentication. By preparing the user interface state in advance as part of the authentication flow, the system ensures that the interface becomes fully operable immediately after authentication succeeds, allowing users to interact with the device without additional steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges authentication with the login process that enables user interface access. This combination ensures that security verification and interface activation occur simultaneously, improving ease of operation while maintaining security controls during the authentication process itself.
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AI summary
The present invention is an image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing. The image forming device includes: an authentication print detecting unit which detects whether to execute a job as the authentication print printing by referencing predetermined data; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit which outputs the result of the user authentication; a job executing unit; a user interface; and a user interface input mode switching unit which switches an information input/output mode of the user interface, wherein, an instruction to execute a first process can be received, and wherein the first process includes processes in which: the execution of the authentication print printing starts based on the result of the user authentication output by the user authentication unit; and the result of the user authentication is invoked so that the information input/output mode of the user interface is switched to a login mode.