A function executing device may send screen display information to a terminal device via a first wireless interface without executing, via the first wireless interface, communication using specific authentication information, wherein the screen display information is for causing the terminal device to display a function screen. In a case where a first execution instruction for causing the function executing device to execute a first function is inputted to the terminal device after a function screen has been displayed in the terminal device, the function executing device may execute the communication using the specific authentication information with the terminal device via the first wireless interface and execute communication of first function execution information for executing the first function via the first wireless interface with the terminal device.

A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. A proxy printing device is created to manage a plurality of printing devices and communicate with the public policy server. The proxy printing device corresponds to a condition within the printing devices.

An image reading apparatus includes a first communication device provided communicatively with a first information processing apparatus, a second communication device provided communicatively with a second information processing apparatus, and a processor to receive a setting for a transmission destination of an input image, prohibit transmission of the input image via a communication device different from a communication device provided communicatively with the transmission destination, and determine whether the communication device provided communicatively with the transmission destination is in a state physically communicable with a network or an information processing apparatus. The processor permits transmission of the input image via the communication device different from the communication device provided communicatively with the transmission destination when it is determined that the communication device provided communicatively with the transmission destination is not in a state physically communicable with the network or the information processing apparatus.

An information processing system includes a first processor mounted on a first information processing apparatus installed in a shared space and shared by plural users who do not belong to the same organization, a second processor mounted on a connection server installed outside the shared space and connected to a local area network of an organization to which each of plural users belong, and the connection server having a virtual private line connection function, and a third processor mounted on a management server which is installed outside the shared space and the local area network of each organization, and manages connection server connection information necessary for establishing a virtual private line with the connection server of each organization, in which the third processor is configured to, in response to a connection information acquisition request in which identification information on an organization transmitted from the first information processing apparatus is designated, return the connection server connection information corresponding to the organization designated in the connection information acquisition request, and the first processor is configured to connect a virtual private line with the connection server of the organization, by using the connection server connection information corresponding to the organization acquired by transmitting, to the management server, the connection information acquisition request including the identification information on the organization designated from a user of the first information processing apparatus.

Examples dis closed herein relate to receiving a first request to begin a first operation on a physical document, receiving a second request to begin a second operation, determining whether the first operation has completed, and in response to determining that the first operation has not completed, delay performance of the second operation.

An image forming apparatus and a method of operating an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes activating a personal information protection policy corresponding to a country of use set in the image forming apparatus, receiving an execution request of a first application installed in the image forming apparatus, determining whether a first job to be performed by execution of the first application is restricted to the personal information protection policy, and controlling an operation of the image forming apparatus according to whether the first job is restricted to the personal information protection policy.

A device locks a control panel of the device in response to connection from a device management app of an information processing apparatus. When receiving an operation for releasing the lock via the control panel, the device transmits a notification of stop to the device management app to unlock the control panel. When receiving the notification of stop from the connected device, the device management app of the information processing apparatus stops processing for changing the setting of the device performed by the device management app.

The present invention includes a receiver capable of receiving confidential data, a screen display controller that performs a control that displays a screen in which the confidential data received by the receiver is in a masked display, a determiner that determines whether or not an identification display for visualizing the confidential data in the masked display is to be displayed, and an identification display controller that performs a control that displays the identification display on the screen when it is determined by the determiner that the identification display is to be displayed.

A printing system is provided including a printer server accessible over a first network at a first location and a cloud service accessible from both the first location and a second network at a second network. A user with a client computer moving between the first network and the second network can print using either the printer server, when the user is on the first network, or the cloud service, when the user is on the second network. The client computer is configured detect its location and receive configuration information from the cloud service. The configuration information changes the method used by the client computer to print depending upon the client computer's detected location.

There is provided an image forming apparatus having security against cyberattacks by establishing an authentication factor for a remote access user that is different from an authentication factor employed in multi-factor authentication of local access.