Information Processing Apparatus User Authentication via Device ID

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Solution Overview

Problem

Information processing apparatuses face challenges in specifying the user related to a processing request when the request is transmitted from a device that does not provide a user ID, leading to potential unauthorized access or execution of tasks.

Innovation Solution

The apparatus receives a device ID from the processing request transmission device and uses it to specify the related user based on pre-registered ID-related information and schedule data, ensuring that only authorized users can execute the processing request.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the information processing apparatus requires explicit user ID input for authentication, then user specification accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser specification accuracyVSAvoidease of operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs user specification using device ID and stored correspondence relationships without requiring manual user ID input. The information processing apparatus itself services the authentication process by retrieving user information based on the transmitting device's identifier, eliminating the need for users to explicitly provide user IDs while maintaining accurate user specification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If the apparatus uses device ID-based authentication, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to inability to specify the related user

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of operationVSAvoiduser authentication reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The device ID serves as an intermediary that connects the transmitting device to the corresponding user information stored in the information processing apparatus. By maintaining correspondence relationships between device IDs and user information, the system uses the device ID as a mediator to reliably identify the related user without requiring direct user ID input, thus maintaining both ease of operation and authentication reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If the apparatus stores correspondence relationships between device ID and user information, then user specification reliability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser specification reliabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The correspondence relationships between device IDs and user information are pre-stored in the information processing apparatus before actual authentication occurs. This preliminary preparation allows the system to quickly and reliably specify users during operation by simply looking up the device ID in the pre-established correspondence table, maintaining reliability while keeping the operational process simple and the device structure manageable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11698985B2Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program

Publication Date: 2023.07.11 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a device ID for identifying a processing request transmission device and a processing request from the processing request transmission device, and specify a related user related to the processing request based on the device ID and then execute processing according to the processing request.