Information processing device, image forming device, printing system control method, and storage medium for searching, retrieving image forming devices that are collectively registered on a service providing device

An information processing device that is communicable with a service providing device that provides a print service and an image forming device that executes printing by using the print service, comprising:

• a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a plurality of image forming device, a registration request on the service providing device;
• a receipt unit configured to receive, from the plurality of image forming devices that have accepted the registration request, location information for accessing the service providing device and that corresponds to the each image forming device;
• and
• a presentation unit configured to present an authentication screen for performing an authentication request to the service providing device,
• wherein the transmission unit further accesses the service providing device along with authentication information based on the location information that has been acquired by the authentication information input on the authentication screen so that user information corresponding to the authentication information and the plurality of image forming devices are associated with each other and managed by the service providing device.

An information processing device that is communicable with a service providing device that provides a print service and an image forming device that executes printing by using the print service, comprising:

• an access unit configured to access the service providing device along with an authentication information based on predetermined location information for accessing the service providing device and that is used in order to register a plurality of image forming devices on the service providing;
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• a provision unit configured to provide the service providing device with a list of the image forming devices that are targets to be registered on the service providing device,
• wherein user information corresponding to the authentication information and the image forming devices included in the list are associated with each other and managed by the service providing device that has been accessed along with the authentication information.

An image forming device that executes printing by using a service providing device that provides a print service via a network, comprising:

• a search unit configured to search for a plurality of image forming devices that are connected via the network upon receipt of a request from an information processing device;
• a transmission unit configured to transmit a registration request on the service providing device to the plurality of image forming devices searched out;
• a receipt unit configured to receive, from the plurality of image forming devices that have accepted the registration request, location information for accessing the service providing device and that corresponds to the each image forming device;
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• an instruction unit configured to instruct the information processing device to access the service providing device based on the received location information, and to request an authentication screen for inputting authentication information,
• wherein, after authentication information is input on the authentication screen displayed by the information processing device, user information corresponding to the authentication information and the plurality of image forming devices are associated with each other and managed by the service providing device.

An image forming device that executes printing by using a service providing device that provides a print service via a network, comprising:

• a search unit configured to search for a plurality of image forming devices that are connected via the network;
• an instruction unit configured to instruct the plurality of image forming devices that have been retrieved to execute processing performed by a own device in response to accepted request in conjunction with the own device whenever the own device executes the processing;
• a receipt unit configured to accept a registration request of the own device and execute receiving processing of receiving location information for accessing the service providing device and that corresponds to the own device by transmitting the registration request to;
• a display unit configured to receive and display an authentication screen for inputting authentication information by accessing the service providing device based on the received location information;
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• an access unit configured to execute access processing of accessing the service providing device along with the authentication information input on the authentication screen based on the location information upon receipt of an access request to the service providing device,
• wherein when the access processing has been executed by the own device, the instruction unit instructs the each image forming device that has executed the receiving processing in conjunction with the own device to execute access processing to the service providing device by providing the authentication information input in the access processing by the own device, and
• wherein user information corresponding to the authentication information and the plurality of image forming devices are associated with each other and managed by the service providing device.

A method for controlling a printing system that comprises a service providing device that provides a print service, an image forming device that executes printing by utilizing the service providing device, and an information processing device that is communicable with the image forming device and the service providing device, comprising:

• transmitting, by the information processing device, to a plurality of image forming devices a registration request to the service providing device;
• creating, by the service providing device, location information for accessing the service providing device and that corresponds to each the image forming device;
• receiving, by the information processing device, the location information from the plurality of image forming devices that have accepted the registration request;
• accessing, by the information processing device, the service providing device based on the received location information, and receiving and displaying an authentication screen for inputting authentication information;
• managing, by the service providing device, a user corresponding to the authentication information input on the authentication screen on the basis of the location information and the image forming device by associating them;
• acquiring, by the image forming device, access information for using the service providing device from the service providing device as a result of the managing step in which the information processing device and the image forming device have been associated with each other and managed;
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• confirming, by the information processing device, whether the image forming device has acquired the access information in the acquiring step.

A non-transitory storage medium on which is stored a computer program for making a computer execute a method for controlling a printing system that comprises a service providing device that provides a print service, an image forming device that executes printing by utilizing the service providing device, and an information processing device that is communicable with the image forming device and the service providing device, comprising:

• transmitting, by the information processing device, to a plurality of image forming devices a registration request to the service providing device;
• creating, by the service providing device, location information for accessing the service providing device and that corresponds to each the image forming device;
• receiving, by the information processing device, the location information from the plurality of image forming devices that have accepted the registration request;
• accessing, by the information processing device, the service providing device based on the received location information, and receiving and displaying an authentication screen for inputting authentication information;
• managing, by the service providing device, a user corresponding to the authentication information input on the authentication screen on the basis of the location information and the image forming device by associating them;
• acquiring, by the image forming device, access information for using the service providing device from the service providing device as a result of the managing step in which the information processing device and the image forming device have been associated with each other and managed;
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• confirming, by the information processing device, whether the image forming device has acquired the access information in the acquiring step.