An information processor includes: a responding unit that transmits data including a predetermined password to a terminal apparatus to make a response to an inquiry from the terminal apparatus, without user operation; and a connection establishing unit that performs processing to establish connection in a case where a connection request using the predetermined password transmitted by the responding unit is accepted from the terminal apparatus, the connection request being regarded as a request to establish connection between the information processor and the terminal apparatus.

A processing apparatus includes a file selecting section configured to receive selections of a plurality of files, a first processing section configured to perform authentication by applying authentication information to an authentication-required file that requires authentication for a process to be performed and configured to perform the process on the authentication-required file, a second processing section configured to perform the process on a no authentication-required file that does not require authentication for the process to be performed, and an authentication information acquiring section configured to request entry of the authentication information for the authentication-required file and acquire the authentication information. In response to the file selecting section receiving a selection of the authentication-required file, before both of the first processing section and the second processing section perform the process, the authentication information acquiring section is configured to request the entry of the authentication information for the authentication-required file.

An information processing device includes a linker that links respective identification information of one or more persons and an object involved in a transfer established using a network, and an updater that updates the respective identification information for a subsequent transfer transaction.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: store document data, a first character string, and a second character string that are associated with each other, the second character string being to be inputted by an operation that has a procedure quantity smaller than a procedure quantity of an operation by which a user inputs the first character string; output the document data that is associated with the second character string to a requester of the document data when the second character string is acquired if a predetermined condition is satisfied; avoid outputting the document data that is associated with the second character string to the requester of the document data when the second character string is acquired if the condition is not satisfied; and output the document data that is associated with the first character string to the requester of the document data when the first character string is acquired if the condition is not satisfied.

There is provided an image forming apparatus. A storage unit stores a second table tabulating a usage amount when a user uses an apparatus for each identifier for tabulation separately from a first table in which user information is registered for each identifier for authentication of the user. A reception unit receives a user identifier. A registration unit registers the user identifier in the second table as an identifier for tabulation, when the received user identifier establishes an authentication by a verification in the identifier for authentication registered in the first table, and is not registered in the second table.

An information processing apparatus transmits a login request for logging into an external device to the external device, based on a short-range wireless communication being established between the information processing apparatus and the external device in a state where an application is operating in a background state on the information processing apparatus.

An image processing apparatus providing a plurality of functions includes a display control unit that, upon receiving an instruction for displaying a screen of a function where use of the function requires authentication, displays the screen of the function requiring authentication in a state where a user operation on the screen of the function is not received, wherein the display control unit enables receipt of a user operation on the screen of the function in a case where a user is successfully authenticated and authorized to use the function.

A multifunction peripheral includes a control unit that, when a registered user is using the multifunction peripheral, causes an operation panel to display information concerning an optional function that can be added to the multifunction peripheral, receives, with the operation panel, an evaluation of the user for the optional function, when receiving, with a communication I/F, an acquisition request for an evaluation for the optional function, generates an evaluation result obtained by aggregating evaluations of a plurality of registered users, and transmits the generated evaluation result to a transmission source of the acquisition request.

An information processing method to be performed by an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: causing an authentication processor to perform a login authentication based on an operation performed on an operation section; and causing an exclusive control executor that gives a usage right to use a function to the operation section after the operation section is authenticated by the login authentication and releases the usage right given to the operation section in a case where no response is received from the operation section for a predetermined time after the usage right is given to determine, based on a detection result by a status detector that detects a status of the information processing apparatus, whether or not to release the usage right given to the operation section after the predetermined time passes.

An image processing apparatus includes a processing target selection unit. The processing target selection unit inquires which image data obtained by a conveyed-document reading unit or by a fixed-document reading unit, to be set as a processing target when a user determination unit has determined that users are identical, determines image data obtained by a conveyed-document reading unit as a processing target when the user determination unit has determined that the users are not identical and a determination unit has determined that the document on the platen is a left document, and inquires which image data image data obtained by the conveyed-document reading unit or by the fixed-document reading unit, to be set as the processing target when the user determination unit has determined that the users are not identical, and the determination unit has determined that the document on the platen is not a left document.