Image reading system, image reading apparatus, information processing apparatus, method for controlling them, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Morita
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Abstract
In the present image reading system, an information processing apparatus notifies any image reading apparatus on a network of connection information, and permits transmission of image data only in a case where the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information accesses the information processing apparatus. The image reading apparatus transmits image data that is read from an original, to a transmission destination conforming to the connection information is notified by the information processing apparatus.
Claims15
1-17. (canceled)
An information processing apparatus which is able to communicate, via a network, with an external apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a controller that performs a search for at least one external apparatus;
- and
- a user interface that displays a plurality of external apparatuses found by the search,
- wherein the user interface receives, from a user, a selection of an external apparatus from the plurality of external apparatuses displayed by the user interface, and
- wherein the controller registers information of the selected external apparatus as information for determining whether to permit access to the information processing apparatus from an external apparatus.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an information processing apparatus that is able to communicate, via a network, with an external apparatus and that includes a user interface, the method comprising:
- performing a search for at least one external apparatus;
- and
- displaying a plurality of external apparatuses found by the search,
- receiving, from a user, a selection of an external apparatus from the plurality of external apparatuses displayed by the user interface,
- registering information of the selected external apparatus as information for determining whether to permit access to the information processing apparatus from an external apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.