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US 12,170,749 B2Granted
Cloud link system for transmitting information about cloud services usable in an image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Fuse
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Abstract
A cloud link system is connected with another cloud link system. In a list of cloud services includes a first cloud service connected to the cloud link system without the another cloud link system and a second cloud service connected to the another cloud link system.
Claims8
A cloud system comprising:
- a first cloud link system configured to provide a first cloud link service, the first cloud link system being connected with an image forming apparatus and one or more cloud services via a network;
- and
- the image forming apparatus,
- wherein the image forming apparatus includes:
- first one or more processors;
- and
- first at least one memory storing first instructions, which when executed by the first one or more processors, cause the image forming apparatus to:
- accept selection of the first cloud link service by a user;
- send, in a case where the selection of the cloud link service is accepted, an acquisition request to the first cloud link system to acquire information about cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus;
- receive the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus from the first cloud link system;
- and
- control a display unit to display a list of the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus by using the received information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus,
- wherein the first cloud link system includes:
- second one or more processors;
- and
- second at least one memory storing second instructions, which when executed by the second one or more processors, cause the first cloud link system to:
- manage information about first cloud services connected to the first cloud link system;
- acquire information about second cloud services connected to a second cloud link system if the managed information about the first cloud services includes information about a second cloud link service provided by the second cloud link system;
- combine the managed information about the first cloud services and the acquired information about the second cloud services to generate the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus, wherein the generated information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus does not include the information about the second cloud link service;
- and
- transmit the generated information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus to the image forming apparatus in accordance with the acquisition request,
- wherein the displayed list of the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus includes the information about the second cloud services and the information about the first cloud services other than the information about the second cloud link service.
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A first cloud link system that is connected with an image forming apparatus and one or more cloud services via a network and provides a first cloud link service, the first cloud link system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- at least one memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first cloud link system to:
- manage information about first cloud services connected to the first cloud link system;
- acquire information about second cloud services connected to a second cloud link system if the managed information about the first cloud services includes information about a second cloud link service provided by the second cloud link system;
- combine the managed information about the first cloud services and the acquired information about the second cloud services to generate the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus, wherein the generated information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus does not include the information about the second cloud link service;
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- transmit the generated information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus to the image forming apparatus, in response to an acquisition request to acquire the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus,
- wherein the image forming apparatus displays, as the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus, the information about the second cloud services and the information about the first cloud services other than the information about the second cloud link service.
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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs cause one or more processors of a first cloud link system, that is connected with an image forming apparatus and provides a first cloud link service, to perform:
- managing information about first cloud services connected to the first cloud link system;
- acquiring information about second cloud services connected to a second cloud link system if the managed information about the first cloud services includes information about a second cloud link service provided by the second cloud link system;
- combining the managed information about the first cloud services and the acquired information about the second cloud services to generate the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus, wherein the generated information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus does not include the information about the second cloud link service;
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- transmitting the generated information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus to the image forming apparatus, in response to an acquisition request to acquire the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus,
- wherein the image forming apparatus displays, as the information about the cloud services usable in the image forming apparatus, the information about the second cloud services and the information about the first cloud services other than the information about the second cloud link service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.