System and method of controlling system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuya Morioka
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Abstract
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a print service relays an authentication request and a document acquisition request received from a multi-function printer to a document management service, and transmits authentication information and information of printing result acquired from the document acquisition request to the document management service. The document management service transmits a result of an authentication process, a document, and charge information to the print service based on a request received from the print service, stores and manages the information of print result received from the print service in association with a user account, and performs a process for charging a user for the printing later based on the information of print result.
Claims8
A system providing a print service for performing printing via an image processing apparatus and a management service for managing documents and operating cooperatively with the print service, the system including a memory that stores a program and a processor that executes the program to perform:
- transferring, from the print service to the management service, an authentication request received from the image processing apparatus;
- executing, in the management service, an authentication process based on the authentication request received from the print service;
- transferring, from the print service to the management service, an acquisition request of acquiring a document and authentication information received from the image processing apparatus;
- in receipt of the acquisition request from the print service, transmitting charge information from the management service to the print service, the charge information indicating whether provision of the document and printing of the document via use of the print service correspond to predetermined charging or not;
- transmitting, from the print service to the image processing apparatus, the charge information and the document received from the management service;
- when the printing of the document is performed using the image processing apparatus, transmitting, from the print service to the management service, information of the printing and the authentication information;
- managing the information of the printing in the management service, the managing including linking the information of the printing to a user account corresponding to the authentication information received from the print service;
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- executing a process for charging a user corresponding to the user account for the printing based on the information of the printing.
A method of controlling a system that provides a print service for performing printing via an image processing apparatus and a management service for managing documents and operating cooperatively with the print service, the method comprising:
- transferring, from the print service to the management service, an authentication request received from the image processing apparatus;
- executing, in the management service, an authentication process based on the authentication request received from the print service;
- transferring, from the print service to the management service, an acquisition request of acquiring a document and authentication information received from the image processing apparatus;
- in receipt of the acquisition request from the print service, transmitting charge information from the management service to the print service, the charge information indicating whether provision of the document and printing of the document via use of the print service correspond to predetermined charging or not;
- transmitting, from the print service to the image processing apparatus, the charge information and the document received from the management service;
- when the printing of the document is performed using the image processing apparatus, transmitting, from the print service to the management service, information of the printing and the authentication information;
- managing the information of the printing in the management service, the managing including linking the information of the printing to a user account corresponding to the authentication information received from the print service;
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- executing a process for charging a user corresponding to the user account for the printing based on the information of the printing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.