Information processing apparatus and method of executing an application in the apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuichi Uruma
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus capable of non-interactively executing an application and an application execution method are disclosed. In response to an issuance request of an access control token, if a user type described in a definition file is included in user types defined in the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus issues an access control token in accordance with a user type and executes process by an application, in a case that the user type of the access control token is contained in the user types that have the execution authority for the process by the application.
Claims4
An information processing apparatus capable of non-interactively executing an application, comprising:
- storage means for storing an application and a definition file describing a user type having execution authority of the application;
- issuance means for issuing an access control token according to a user type in response to an issuance request of the access control token from the application, in a case that the user type contained in the definition file is included in a user type defined for the information processing apparatus;
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- execution means for causing the application to execute a process in a case that the user type of the access control token issued by the issuance means is included in the user type that possesses the execution authority for the process by the application.
An application execution method for non-interactively executing an application in an information processing apparatus storing an application and a definition file which contains user types that possess execution authority for the application, the method comprising:
- an issuance step of issuing an access control token according to an issuance request for the access control token from the application, in a case that the user type described in the definition file is included in a user type defined in the information processing apparatus;
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- an execution step of executing a process by the application, in a case that a user type of the access control token issued in the issuance step is contained in a user type that possesses the execution authority for the process by the application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.