H04N1/32016

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT TRANSMITS REQUESTED DATA WITHOUT DISPLAYING AN APPROVAL SCREEN IN RESPONSE TO SATISFY A PARTICULAR CONDITION
20250094105 · 2025-03-20 ·

An image forming apparatus includes a user interface, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller performs an approval process of, in response to receiving a data request from a requesting apparatus via a communication interface, displaying an approval screen on a user interface. In response to receiving an approval operation to the approval screen via the user interface, the controller transmits requested data to the requesting apparatus. In response to determining that a particular condition is satisfied when the data request is received from the requesting apparatus via the communication interface, the controller transmits the requested data to the requesting apparatus without displaying the approval screen on the user interface. After transmitting the requested data, in response to receiving an instruction via the communication interface from the requesting apparatus, the controller performs a particular process based on the instruction.