Management server and management server system

1 . A management server comprising:

a server communication portion communicating with a service providing server and an image forming apparatus; and

a server processor, wherein the server processor

receives a first request, which is a request including identification information of the image forming apparatus, authentication information, and information about an email address, from the service providing server,

transmits the authentication information to a terminal device, which is a destination of the email address,

transmits URL information for connecting the service providing server and the image forming apparatus via the management server to the image forming apparatus specified based on the identification information, and

establishes a connection between the image forming apparatus, which is specified based on the identification information, and the service providing server, wherein the connection is established via the management server when there is an access including the authentication information from the terminal device that reads code information formed by the image forming apparatus based on the URL information.

2 . The management server according to claim 1 , wherein the server processor transmits the URL information including a hash value to the image forming apparatus.

3 . The management server according to claim 1 , wherein the server processor

transmits the URL information including a hash value to the image forming apparatus, and

compares the hash value included in the URL information transmitted to the image forming apparatus with a hash value included in the URL information based on the access from the terminal device.

4 . The management server according to claim 1 , wherein the server processor

transmits the URL information including a hash value to the image forming apparatus, and

provides a notification of a predetermined error when the hash value included in the URL information transmitted to the image forming apparatus and a hash value included in the URL information based on the access from the terminal device do not match with each other.

5 . The management server according to claim 1 , wherein the server processor

transmits the URL information including a hash value to the image forming apparatus, and

does not receive a re-access from the terminal device for a predetermined period when the hash value included in the URL information transmitted to the image forming apparatus and a hash value included in the URL information based on the access from the terminal device do not match with each other.

6 . The management server according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a server storage, wherein the server processor

stores the identification information of the image forming apparatus, the authentication information, and the information about the email address, which are received from the service providing server, in the server storage,

establishes a connection between the service providing server and the image forming apparatus via the management server when there is an access including the authentication information from the terminal device that reads the code information formed by the image forming apparatus specified based on the identification information, and

removes the information about the email address from the server storage after the authentication information is transmitted to the terminal device.

7 . The management server according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a server storage, wherein the server processor

stores the identification information of the image forming apparatus, the authentication information, and the information about the email address, which are received from the service providing server, in the server storage,

transmits the authentication information to the terminal device, which is the destination of the email address, when the first request is received, and

removes the information about the email address from the server storage after the authentication information is transmitted to the terminal device.

8 . The management server according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a server storage, wherein the server processor

stores the identification information of the image forming apparatus, the authentication information, and the information about the email address, which are received from the service providing server, in the server storage,

transmits the authentication information to the terminal device, which is the destination of the email address, when a second request, which is a request from the image forming apparatus specified based on the identification information, is received, and

removes the information about the email address from the server storage after the authentication information is transmitted to the terminal device.

9 . A management server system comprising:

the management server according to claim 1 ; and

the image forming apparatus specified based on the identification information.

10 . The management server system according to claim 9 , wherein the image forming apparatus includes

a communication portion communicating with the management server that is communicatively connected to the service providing server, and

a processor, wherein

the server processor transmits the authentication information to the terminal device, which is the destination of the email address at a predetermined time, and

the processor prints or displays the code information including the URL information when the URL information is received from the management server.

11 . A management server comprising:

a server communication portion communicating with a service providing server and an image forming apparatus;

a server storage; and

a server processor, wherein the server processor

receives a first request, which is a request including identification information of the image forming apparatus, authentication information, and information about an email address, from the service providing server,

stores the identification information of the image forming apparatus, the authentication information, and the information about the email address, which are received from the service providing server, in the server storage,

transmits the authentication information to a terminal device, which is a destination of the email address, when the first request is received,

removes the information about the email address from the server storage after the authentication information is transmitted to the terminal device, and

establishes a connection between the image forming apparatus, which is specified based on the identification information, and the service providing server, wherein the connection is established via the management server when there is an access including the authentication information from the terminal device.