Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer readable medium using authentication processing
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsGuowei Yang, Mitsuru Konji
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus comprises: a communication unit which performs short-range wireless communication with an external apparatus configured to provide a predetermined function; a first determination unit which determines, based on information obtained from the external apparatus by the communication unit, whether to perform authentication processing in order to utilize the predetermined function of the external apparatus; and an authentication unit which performs the authentication processing if the first determination unit determines to perform the authentication processing.
Claims19
An information processing apparatus which comprises a short range wireless communication interface for performing first and second communication with a printing apparatus configured to provide a remote user interface (UI) function of managing the printing apparatus by using a Web browser of the information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- causing a display to display a password input screen for using the remote UI function;
- performing a first authentication processing to enable the short range wireless communication interface to perform the second communication based on an advertise packet transmitted from the printing apparatus being received in the first communication, wherein the first communication is performed using the short range wireless communication interface before the first authentication processing and the second communication is performed using the short range wireless communication interface after the first authentication processing;
- receiving password information of the remote UI function from the printing apparatus via the second communication using the short range wireless communication interface;
- sending the received password information of the remote UI function to the printing apparatus;
- and
- if it is determined, by the printing apparatus, that the sent password information of the remote UI function is valid, displaying a screen corresponding to the remote UI function based on information about the screen of the remote UI function, without displaying the password input screen,
- wherein, a second authentication processing is performed using a password which is input using the password input screen displayed by the display of the information processing apparatus,
- wherein in a case that the second authentication processing is successful, a screen corresponding to the remote UI function based on the information about the screen of the remote UI function is displayed by the display of the information processing apparatus, and
- wherein the screen corresponding to the remote UI function displayed based on the first authentication processing being performed is the same as the screen corresponding to the remote UI function displayed based on success of the second authentication processing.
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus which comprises a short range wireless communication interface for performing first and second communication with a printing apparatus configured to provide a remote user interface (UI) function of managing the printing apparatus by using a Web browser of the information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- causing a display to display a password input screen for using the remote UI function;
- performing a first authentication processing to enable the short range wireless communication interface to perform the second communication based on an advertise packet transmitted from the printing apparatus being received in the first communication, wherein the first communication is performed using the short range wireless communication interface before the first authentication processing and the second communication is performed using the short range wireless communication interface after the first authentication processing;
- receiving password information of the remote UI function from the printing apparatus via the second communication using the short range wireless communication interface;
- sending the received password information of the remote UI function to the printing apparatus;
- and
- if it is determined, by the printing apparatus, that the sent password information of the remote UI function is valid, displaying a screen corresponding to the remote UI function based on information about the screen of the remote UI function, without displaying the password input screen.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program to cause a computer, comprising a short range wireless communication interface for performing first and second communication with a printing apparatus configured to provide a remote user interface (UI) function of managing the printing apparatus by using a Web browser of the information processing apparatus, to perform a method, the method comprising:
- causing a display to display a password input screen for using the remote UI function;
- performing a first authentication processing to enable the short range wireless communication interface to perform the second communication based on an advertise packet transmitted from the printing apparatus being received in the first communication, wherein the first communication is performed using the short range wireless communication interface before the first authentication processing and the second communication is performed using the short range wireless communication interface after the first authentication processing;
- receiving password information of the remote UI function from the printing apparatus via the second communication using the short range wireless communication interface;
- sending the received password information of the remote UI function to the printing apparatus;
- and
- if it is determined, by the printing apparatus, that the sent password information of the remote UI function is valid, displaying a screen corresponding to the remote UI function based on information about the screen of the remote UI function, without displaying the password input screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.