Image Processing Apparatus Cloud Service Registration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of image processing apparatuses face the inconvenience of needing to repeatedly register for multiple cloud services, which is time-consuming and troublesome.

Innovation Solution

An image processing apparatus receives a confirmation code for selected cloud services, allows input of a display name and optional identification code, and stores these for each cloud service, enabling streamlined access and improved security by using a common registration ID for multiple services.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users register for multiple cloud services individually in the image processing apparatus, then each cloud service can be used with proper authentication, but the registration process becomes time-consuming and troublesome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication securityVSAvoidregistration time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple cloud service registrations into a single unified process. The image processing apparatus stores one master authentication credential that automatically generates confirmation codes for multiple cloud services, eliminating the need for separate registrations and reducing time while maintaining security through the confirmation code verification mechanism

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary authentication by storing master credentials in advance. When a user wants to access multiple cloud services, the apparatus proactively generates confirmation codes based on the pre-stored credentials, so that actual service access can occur quickly without repeated registration steps

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If users manually input credentials for each cloud service, then account security is maintained, but users must remember multiple usernames and PINs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccount securityVSAvoidoperation convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The image processing apparatus provides self-service authentication by automatically generating confirmation codes using pre-stored master credentials. Users simply need to input their own confirmation code on the apparatus interface, and the system handles the complex authentication process with multiple cloud services automatically, eliminating the need for users to remember multiple credentials while maintaining security

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The image processing apparatus acts as an intermediary between users and multiple cloud services. It stores master credentials and generates confirmation codes that serve as intermediates for authentication, so users interact only with the apparatus interface rather than directly with each cloud service's login system

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11360716B2Image processing apparatus and method

Publication Date: 2022.06.14 CANON KK

AI summary

An image processing apparatus receives, in a case where a plurality of cloud services is managed in association with one input confirmation code, an input of a display name to be display in the image processing apparatus and an input of an identification code for each cloud service at a time when the cloud service is selected to be used in the image processing apparatus, and stores a display name and an identification code in association with each other for each cloud service.