Image forming apparatus, restore control method, and storage medium using user identification information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8964236-B2
Application number	US-201113034578-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2011
Priority date	Feb 26, 2010
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

An image forming apparatus is described where restoration of unnecessary data is prevented, and a storage area of the image forming apparatus is effectively utilized. When an option to increase the storage capacity of the image forming apparatus is selected, data backed up by a backup unit is set as data to be restored by a restore unit. When the option to increase the storage capacity of the image forming apparatus is not selected, data indicated by data identification information as being required data is set as data to be restored by the restore unit from among the data backed up by the backup unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a data management unit configured to manage data used by an application and user identification information for identifying a user who created the data by associating with each other;
a backup unit configured to backup the data managed by the data management unit; and
a restore unit configured to restore the data backed up by the backup unit,
wherein the data management unit is configured to set data managed by be…

Assignees

• Asahara Hideo
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Asahara Hideo

Classifications

• B41J15/04

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G06F11/1448

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/1469 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K15/40

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/1402 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic