Method of controlling user inforamtion and information processing apparatus

Abstract

A method of controlling user information for an information processing apparatus includes the steps of a process of an application program requesting user information controlling unit to obtain an item of said user information, and said user information controlling unit providing the obtained item of said user information to said process. The user information controlling unit obtains the user information requested by the process of an application program and provides the user information to the process. Accordingly, the user information can be shared by the application programs and centrally controlled.

1 . An image processing apparatus, comprising:
 an image processing hardware including at least one of a printer unit and a scanner unit;   one or more image processing application that processes images using the image processing hardware;   an operating system; and   a user information control program that are commonly accessed and used by the one or more image processing application, the user information control program running on the operating system, wherein the user information control program, in response to reception of a request from a particular image processing application, provides the particular image processing application with user information corresponding to the request.