Image processing apparatus, information transmission method and image processing system

An information transmission method for transmitting information from an image processing apparatus to a web server, comprising the steps of:

• identifying a login name of a user of the image processing apparatus;
• referring to a web server management table in which, with respect to each login name, location information indicating a location of a web server is associated with transmission information to be transmitted to the web server;
• and
• transmitting the transmission information to the web server, the location of which is indicated by the location information pertaining to the identified login name in the web server management table.

An image processing system in which a client terminal having a 1st web browser is connected to an image processing apparatus via a network, wherein

• the image processing apparatus includes:
• a web server unit operable to identify a login name of the client terminal which has requested to access the image processing apparatus in response to a remote access via the 1st web browser, receive a registration content in which a location information indicating a location of a web server is associated with web sign-in information to be transmitted at a time when sign-in to the web server is performed, and manage a web server management table in which the received registration content is associated with the identified login name;
• an identification unit operable to identify a login name of a user locally using the image processing apparatus;
• an operation panel having a display screen and an entry key;
• a 2nd web browser operable to perform browsing in response to operation on the entry key;
• and
• a transmission unit operable to transmit the associated web sign-in information to the web server indicated by the location information pertaining to the login name identified by the web server unit in the web server management table.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• an operation panel having a display screen and one or more entry keys;
• an identification unit operable to identify a login name of a user of the image processing apparatus;
• a user management table in which, with respect to each login name, an item is associated with a value;
• and
• a key assigning unit operable to assign items and values assigned to the items for the identified login name to the entry keys which function as entry-free keys.