TWI684138B - Method for managing authority of output device and authority management system of output device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a method for managing the authority of an output device, which includes the following steps: a) providing a user-side computer, including documents to be printed; b) a printing sub-module sending the user's account and user-side computer name to the control Server; c) whether the authorization submodule compares the account number and user computer name to the list of authorization submodules, and sends the authorization data to the printing submodule after confirmation; d) the user holds the identification card (contains Card number) Sensor sub-module for sensing the output device; e) Sensor sub-module sends the card number and output device name to the authority sub-module; f) Notifies the sub-module to send print messages to the user computer; g) Print sub The module sends documents and permission data to the output device to print the documents. The invention also provides an authority management system of the output device.

Description

Method for managing authority of output device and authority management system of output device

The invention relates to a method for managing the authority of an output device and an authority management system for an output device, in particular to a method and system for controlling the printing of documents by a user through an induction identification card.

In general company line numbers, when a user needs to print a document in a specific domain, the user selects an output device on a user-side computer to print one or more documents, and if the user does not If the printed document is taken out from the output device, it may be mistakenly taken by others. If it is small, it needs to be reprinted, which causes paper waste, and most of the time, the data will be leaked to others. Therefore, there is a need for a method and system that allows the output device to print documents when the user must arrive at the output device in person and retrieve the documents on the output device on the spot.

In order to solve the aforementioned problems, the present invention provides a method for managing the authority of an output device, which includes the following steps: a) providing a user-side computer, which contains a document to be printed; b) a printer from the user-side computer The module sends an account of a user and a computer name of a user terminal to a control server; c) one of the control servers A permission submodule of the permission management module compares the account and the computer name of the user to a list of the permission submodule, and sends a permission data of the user to the row after the verification is confirmed Printing submodule; d) An identification card is held by the user to sense an induction submodule in an output device, wherein the identification card contains a card number about the user; e) The induction submodule transmits the Card number and an output device name to the authority submodule to make it match and confirm whether the card number is in the list; f) A notification submodule of the authority management module of the control server sends a print message To the user computer; g) Send the document and the permission data from the printing submodule to the output device to print the document.

As described above, the method of managing the authority of the output device further includes a step h), which is a calculation submodule of the output device to calculate an effective number of printed sheets of the document, and a The charging submodule receives a record transmitted by the calculation submodule.

As described above, the method of managing the authority of the output device, wherein the record includes a card number, the number of valid printed sheets of the document, and a file name.

As described above, the method of managing the authority of the output device further includes an Active Directory Server (Active Directory Server) connected to the control server signal, and the Active Directory Server includes a list sub-module, wherein the list sub-module The module will update the list in the permission submodule.

As in the aforementioned method for managing the permissions of the output device, the list includes the user's account number, the user's computer name, the permission data, and the card number.

As described above, the method of managing the authority of the output device includes a step A) before step a), which uses a data input of the output device to enter a submodule to input the user account and password, and the The user uses the identification card to sense the sensor A module, so that the sensing submodule transmits the card number to the authority submodule.

As the aforementioned method for managing the authority of the output device, the authority data includes the authority for printing in black and white and/or color.

The present invention also provides a permission management system for an output device, including: a user-side computer for printing a document by a user, including a printing submodule; an output device, including a sensing submodule; and a control servo The device is connected to the user terminal computer and the output device signal. The management server preloads a rights management module, which includes a rights submodule and a notification submodule; wherein the printing submodule transmits An account and a user computer name of the user of the user terminal computer to the control server; the permission submodule compares the account and the user computer name to one of the permission submodule In the list, after the comparison is confirmed, the user's permission data is sent to the printing submodule; the sensor submodule is used for the user to hold an identification card to send an output device name and the identification card about A card number of the user to the authority submodule to make it match the card number in the list; after the authorization submodule comparison is confirmed, the notification submodule will send a print message to the user End computer; and the printing submodule sends the document and the permission data to the output device to print the document.

As described above, the authority management system of the output device, wherein the output device includes a calculation sub-module, which is used to calculate an effective number of printed sheets of the document.

As in the aforementioned rights management system of the output device, the management server includes a billing submodule that receives a record transmitted by the calculation submodule.

As in the aforementioned rights management system of the output device, the record includes the card number, the number of valid printed sheets of the document, and a file name.

The authority management system of the output device as described above, which further includes An Active Directory server connected to the control server signal, and the Active Directory server includes a list submodule, where the list submodule updates the list in the permission submodule.

As mentioned above, the permission management system of the output device, wherein the list includes the user's account, the user's computer name, the permission data and the card number.

As mentioned above, the authority management system of the output device, wherein the output device includes a data input sub-module, which is used to input the user account and a password.

As described above, the authority management system of the output device, wherein the authority data includes the authority for printing in black and white and/or color.

10‧‧‧ output authority management system

11‧‧‧User computer

111‧‧‧Print submodule

12‧‧‧Output device

121‧‧‧Induction submodule

122‧‧‧computing submodule

123‧‧‧ data input submodule

13‧‧‧Control server

131‧‧‧CPU

132‧‧‧Memory unit

14‧‧‧Active Directory Server

141‧‧‧List submodule

M‧‧‧ Authority Management Module

M1‧‧‧authority submodule

M2‧‧‧Notification submodule

M3‧‧‧ Billing submodule

S1’, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method of managing authority of an output device of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a management system of an output device of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described. Please refer to the attached drawings and refer to their corresponding instructions.

Please refer to FIG. 1 first, the present invention provides a method for managing the permissions of an output device, which includes the following steps: a) providing a user-side computer, which includes a document to be printed (S1); The sub-module sends the user's account and user computer name to the control server (S2); c) The permission sub-module of the permission management module in the control server compares the account and user computer name to In a list of permission sub-modules, and after the confirmation of the comparison, the user's permission data is sent to the printing sub-module (S3); d) The user holds the identification card to the sensor sub-module in the sensor output device, where Identification card contains Regarding the user's card number (S4); e) The card number and output device name are sent from the induction sub-module to the authority sub-module, so that they can be compared and confirmed whether the card number is in the list (S5); f) The control server The notification sub-module of the rights management module sends a print message to the user computer (S6); g) The document and permission data are sent from the print sub-module to the output device to print out the document (S7).

Furthermore, a step h) is further included, in which the calculation sub-module of the output device calculates the number of valid printed sheets of the document, and the charging sub-module of the rights management module receives the record transmitted by the calculation sub-module ( S8).

The foregoing steps a) to h) are the operation procedures of the present invention regarding printing documents. However, before step a), there is also a step A), which uses the data of the output device to enter the submodule to input the user account and password, and the user uses the identification card to sense the induction submodule, so that the induction The submodule transmits the card number to the authority submodule (S1'). This step A) is used to allow the user to obtain the permission to print the document with the output device by identifying the card number of the card, so step A) can be regarded as a pre-registration step from step a) to step h).

In addition, referring to FIG. 2, the present invention also provides a rights management system 10 for an output device, including: a user-side computer 11 and an output device 12 (the output device referred to in the present invention generally refers to a printer that can print documents) , Photocopiers, list machines, etc., and not limited to this) and a control server 13. The user computer 11 includes a printing sub-module 111; the output device 12 includes a sensor sub-module 121; the control server 13 is in signal connection with the user computer 11 and the output device 12; the control server 13 includes a CPU (i.e. The central processing unit, generally referred to herein as CPU) 131 and a memory unit 132 are preloaded with a rights management module M, which includes a rights submodule M1 and a notification submodule M2.

The aforementioned method and system provided by the present invention are through printing submodules 111 (which can be a print driver, but not limited to this) and the identification card to effectively manage the output of the document, the detailed and specific content will be described later. Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 together, when the user wants to print a document on the user-side computer 11, the user enters a command to the user-side computer 11 and starts the operation procedure of printing the document. The printing sub-module 111 in the user-side computer 11 does not immediately send the document directly to the output device 12 (that is, temporarily leaves the document in the user-side computer 11), but first the user’s account and The name of the client computer is sent to the rights management module M of the control server 13, which is used to notify the rights management module M to notify the user that the user has opened the print document on the user computer 11. Operation procedures, the permission submodule M1 of the permission management module M contains a list of users who have completed the step A) pre-registration step, to compare whether the account and user computer name are in the permission submodule In the list of group M1, if the account and user computer name are not in this list, the user cannot print documents; and the authorization submodule M1 will send the user’s The authority data is given to the printing submodule 111.

Furthermore, the user takes the identification card (containing the card number about the user) to the output device 12, and then uses the identification card to sense the induction sub-module 121 of the output device 12. After induction, the induction sub-module 121 will Send the card number and the output device name of this output device to the authority sub-module M1, notify the user to print the document on this output device 12, and the authority sub-module M1 then compares and confirms whether the card number is In the list. After the comparison is confirmed, the notification sub-module M2 of the rights management module M further sends a print message to the user-side computer 11, that is, the printing sub-module 111 of the user-side computer 11 can start sending the document to be printed To the output device 12, at this time, the printing submodule 111 will simultaneously send the document and the permission data to the output device 12, so that the output device 12 prints the document according to the permission data. Among them, the identification card and the induction sub-module The 121 series uses proximity wireless transmission technology for sensing, such as radio frequency identification (Radio Frequency Identification, RFID), near field communication (Near Field Communication, NFC) and other technologies, but it is not limited to this.

Continuing to explain, there is also an active directory server 14 connected to the control server 13 signal. Those skilled in the art of the present invention should understand that the user computer 11, the output device 12, the control server 13 and A specific domain can be constructed between the active directory servers 14, and the user can print documents by using the output device 12 in this specific domain. As for the technical content related to the construction of this specific network domain, which is not the focus of the present invention, it will not be repeated in this article. The Active Directory Server 14 includes a list submodule 141, which is used to periodically update the list in the permission submodule M1 so that the list in the permission submodule M1 can communicate with employees in the company or enterprise. The work information corresponds to this list, and this list contains the user's account, user computer name, permission data and card number. It should be noted that although the list submodule 141 will update the list in the permission submodule M1 synchronously, the scope of the synchronous update does not include the card number, that is, the card number in the list is sent to the permission submodule from the foregoing step A) Group M1 (transmitted from the sensing submodule 121 of the output device 12 to the authority submodule M1).

Illustratively, the permission data includes permissions that allow users to print documents in black and white and/or color. That is, if the user only has the right to print documents in black and white, even if color printing is selected in the computer 11 on the user side, the output device 12 will eventually only print out documents in black and white.

Furthermore, the calculation submodule 122 of the output device 12 calculates the number of effective printed sheets when the output device 12 prints a document, and the charging submodule M3 of the rights management module M can receive the calculation submodule 122 The transmitted record, this record contains the card number, the number of valid printed documents and the file name of the document. In this way, the manager can Master the effective number of printed documents and file names of the documents printed by each user for easy internal management.

In addition, although only one output device 12 is taken as an example in the present invention, alternatively, there may be a plurality of output devices 12 (for simplicity of the diagram, only one output device 12 is taken as an example in FIG. 2), The user can choose the desired output device 12 to print out the document. Before using the output device 12 for the first time, the user must use the data of any output device 12 in a specific domain to enter the submodule 123, enter the user's account number and password, and then use the identification card to interact with the sensor The module 121 performs sensing, so that the sensing sub-module 121 transmits the card number to the authority sub-module M1, so that the user can print the document through any output device with the identification card in a specific network domain. When the user prints the document in the future, as long as the identification card is held in a specific domain to sense the sensing sub-module 121 of the desired output device 12, the authorization sub-module M1 will send The output device name allows the notification sub-module M2 to send a print message to the user-side computer 11 to send the document to the desired output device 12, and the user can retrieve the document at the desired output device 12.

It is further explained that the list in the permission submodule M1 of the permission management module M of the control server 13 will be updated synchronously with the list submodule 141 in the active directory server 14, and it is preferably updated once a day. In this way, the list in the permission submodule M1 can obtain the latest permission of each user's account (information personnel within the company or enterprise can input relevant information of the current employee to the list submodule 141). When the user wants to print the document, the printing submodule 111 will temporarily store the document in the user computer 11, and send the account and user computer name to the authority submodule M1 to obtain the authority data. The user Then hold the identification card to the output device 12 for sensing, and the authorization submodule M1 compares and confirms the identification card number. It should be noted that the printing submodule 111 will also retain the most recent authorization data sent by the authorization submodule M1 to the printing submodule 111. The intention is that, when the control server 13 fails to operate normally (for example, when it is down or damaged), the permission submodule M1 of the control server 13 cannot send real-time permission data to the printing submodule 111 (that is, the user The printing authority of the printer is not the latest), but the user can still go to the output device 12 to hold the identification card on the induction sub-module 121 and the printing sub-module 111 will automatically send the reserved authorization data to The output device 12 enables the output device 12 to print the document according to the authority data, so as to maintain the normal operation of the printing procedure of the document. However, in this case, the permission data retained in the permission submodule M1 may not be the latest version.

The present invention has been described by the above embodiments. The above is to make it easier for those skilled in the art to understand the present invention for illustrative purposes. However, the present invention is not limited to the contents described in the above embodiments, and those who are familiar with the general technical field of the present invention can understand that it can be targeted without departing from the idea of the present invention The above-described embodiments and modified examples are variously combined and changed.

10‧‧‧ output authority management system

11‧‧‧User computer

111‧‧‧Print submodule

12‧‧‧Output device

121‧‧‧Induction submodule

122‧‧‧computing submodule

123‧‧‧ data input submodule

13‧‧‧Control server

131‧‧‧CPU

132‧‧‧Memory unit

14‧‧‧Active Directory Server

141‧‧‧List submodule

M‧‧‧ Authority Management Module

M1‧‧‧authority submodule

M2‧‧‧Notification submodule

M3‧‧‧ Billing submodule

Claims (15)

A method for managing the authority of an output device, including the following steps: a) providing a user-side computer that contains a document to be printed; b) sending a user's one from a printing submodule of the user-side computer Account and a user computer name to a control server; c) a permission submodule of a permission management module in the control server compares the account and the client computer name to the permission sub In a list of modules, and after the confirmation of the comparison, send the user's permission data to the printing submodule; d) The user selects one of the multiple output devices, holding an identification card to sense An induction submodule in the selected output device, wherein the identification card contains a card number about the user; e) the induction submodule transmits the card number and an output device name to the authority submodule, so that Compare and confirm whether the card number is in the list; f) a notification sub-module of the rights management module of the control server sends a print message to the user-side computer; g) the print sub-module The group sends the document and the authority data to the selected output device to print the document. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, which further includes a step h), which is to calculate a valid number of printed sheets of the document by a calculation submodule of the selected output device, and the rights management A charging submodule of the module receives a record transmitted by the calculation submodule. The method as described in item 2 of the patent application scope, wherein the record includes a card number, the number of valid printed sheets of the document, and a file name. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, which further includes an Active Directory Server (Active Directory Server) connected to the control server signal, and the Active Directory Server includes a list submodule, in which the list Submodule will be updated The list in the permission submodule. The method as described in item 4 of the patent application scope, wherein the list includes the user's account number, the user's computer name, the authority information and the card number. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, which also includes a step A) before step a), which uses a data input submodule of each of the output devices to input the user account and password, And the user uses the identification card to sense the induction submodule, so that the induction submodule transmits the card number to the authority submodule. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the permission data includes permission to print in black and white and/or color. An authority management system for an output device includes: a user-side computer for printing a document by a user, including a printing submodule; a plurality of output devices, each of which includes a sensor submodule; and a The control server is connected to the user terminal computer and each of these output device signals. The control server is preloaded with a rights management module, which includes a rights submodule and a notification submodule; where the row The printing submodule sends an account of the user of the user's computer and a user's computer name to the control server; the permission submodule compares the account and the user's computer name with the permission submodule In a list of modules, after the comparison is confirmed, the user's permission data is sent to the printing submodule; the user selects one of the output devices and holds an identification card to sense the corresponding sensor After the module, send an output device name and a card number of the identification card about the user to the permission submodule to make it compare with the card number in the list; after the permission submodule comparison confirmation, The notification submodule sends a print message to the user computer; and the print submodule sends the document and the permission data to the selected output device to print the document. The system as described in item 8 of the patent application scope, wherein each of these output devices includes a calculation submodule, which is used to calculate an effective number of printed sheets of the document. The system as described in item 9 of the patent application scope, wherein the management and control server includes a billing submodule that receives a record transmitted by the calculation submodule. The system as described in item 10 of the patent application scope, wherein the record includes the card number, the number of valid printed sheets of the document, and a file name. The system as described in item 8 of the patent application scope, which further includes an active directory server connected to the control server signal, and the active directory server includes a list submodule, wherein the list submodule will be updated The list in the permission submodule. The system as described in item 12 of the patent application scope, wherein the list includes the user's account number, the user's computer name, the authority information and the card number. As in the system described in item 8 of the patent application scope, each of these output devices includes a data entry submodule that is used to input the user's account number and a password. The system as described in item 8 of the patent application scope, wherein the permission data includes permission to print in black and white and/or color.

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