Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Kaneko
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus in which information pieces indicating a plurality of service providers that can provide specific services are registered in advance includes: a selection unit for selecting some of the plurality of information pieces displayed by a display unit in accordance with an instruction of a user, and an access unit. The information pieces selected by the selection unit include a plurality of information pieces which each indicate a service provider that can provide an individual specific service.
Claims7
An information processing apparatus in which information pieces respectively indicating a plurality of service providers are registered in advance, the apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a kind of service from a server;
- a retrieving unit configured to, in accordance with acquisition of the information indicating the kind of service, retrieve an information piece indicating a service provider that is capable of providing a service of the kind indicated by the acquired information, from among the information pieces registered in advance indicating the plurality of service providers;
- a display unit configured to, in the case that the information piece retrieved by the retrieving unit is one of a plurality of information pieces retrieved by the retrieving unit, display the plurality of retrieved information pieces;
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- a requesting unit configured to, in accordance with selection by a user of at least two information pieces from among the plurality of displayed information pieces, request at least two service providers indicated by the at least two selected information pieces to provide respective services.
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus in which information pieces indicating a plurality of service providers are registered in advance, the method comprising:
- acquiring information indicating a kind of service from a server;
- retrieving, in accordance with the acquisition of the information indicating the kind of service, an information piece indicating a service provider that is capable of providing a service of the kind indicated by the acquired information, from among the information pieces registered in advance indicating the plurality of service providers;
- displaying, when the information piece retrieved in the retrieving is one of a plurality of information pieces retrieved, the plurality of the retrieved information pieces;
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- requesting, in accordance with selection by a user of at least two information pieces from among the plurality of displayed information pieces, at least two service providers indicated by the at least two selected information pieces to provide respective services.
A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-readable program according to claim 7.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.