Service providing device, printing system control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomohiro Ishihara, Masahiro Hadano
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Abstract
The service providing device transmits a registration screen to the information processing device upon receipt of a registration request of an image forming device from the information processing device, transmits a command for causing the information processing device to search the image forming device and to respond to the service providing device with a search result upon receipt of an instruction from the information processing device via a registration instruction unit displayed on a registration screen, registers the image forming device depending on information included in the search result responded according to the command, and initiates communication with the registered image forming device.
Claims5
A service providing device that communicates with an image forming device that executes printing via a network, and provides a Web service to an information processing device, the service providing device comprising:
- a transmission unit configured to transmit a registration screen to the information processing device upon receipt of a registration request of the image forming device from the information processing device;
- a command unit configured to transmit a command for causing the information processing device to search the image forming device and respond to the service providing device with a search result upon receipt of an instruction from the information processing device via a registration instruction unit displayed on the registration screen;
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- a communication unit configured to register the image forming device in accordance with information included in the search result in response to the command, and to initiate communication with the registered image forming device,
- wherein the command unit transmits, to the information processing device, a command by the number of image forming devices for causing the image forming device to acquire authentication information that is used for acquiring access information in order for the service providing device to be utilized by the image forming device, and an authentication destination such that the information processing device requests authentication to the service providing device when the command unit accepts a registration instruction of the image forming device from the information processing device, and
- wherein a connection unit creates the access information in response to the authentication request, and sets the access information in a request destination of the authentication information.
A method for controlling a print system that includes an information processing device that utilizes a Web service, an image forming device that executes printing, and a service providing device that provides the Web service with the information processing device via a network, the method comprising:
- transmitting, by the service providing device, a registration screen to the information processing device upon receipt of a registration request of the image forming device from the information processing device;
- transmitting, by the service providing device, a command for causing the information processing device to search the image forming device and respond to the service providing device with a search result upon receipt of an instruction from the information processing device via a registration instruction unit displayed on the registration screen;
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- requesting, by the information processing device, printer information to the image forming device while searching the image forming device based on the command;
- transmitting, by the image forming device, printer information to the information processing device in accordance with the request by the information processing device;
- transmitting, by the service providing device, a selection screen for selecting the image forming device based on printer information;
- receiving, by the information processing device, the selection screen from the service providing device for display;
- transmitting, from the information processing device to the image forming device, authentication information that is used when the image forming device acquires access information for accessing the service providing device and an instruction for causing each the image forming devices to acquire the access information, wherein the authentication information and the instruction for acquisition of the access information are transmitted by the service providing device that has received a registration instruction by a user operation via the selection screen;
- receiving, by the image forming device from the information processing device, the authentication information and the instruction for acquisition of the access information when the information processing device instructs the service providing device to register the image forming device, and requesting the service providing device for the access information by using the authentication information;
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- receiving, by the service providing device, the access information from the image forming device, registering the image forming device, and initiating communication with the registered image forming device.
A non-transitory storage medium on which is stored a computer program for making a computer execute a method for controlling a service providing device that communicates with an image forming device that executes printing via a network, and provides a Web service to an information processing device, the method comprising:
- transmitting, by a transmission unit, a registration screen to the information processing device upon receipt of a registration request of the image forming device from the information processing device;
- transmitting, by a command unit, a command for causing the information processing device to search the image forming device and respond to the service providing device with a search result upon receipt of an instruction from the information processing device via a registration instruction unit displayed on the registration screen;
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- registering, by a communication unit, the image forming device in accordance with information included in the search result in response to the command, and initiating communication with the registered image forming device,
- wherein the command unit transmits, to the information processing device, a command by the number of image forming devices for causing the image forming device to acquire authentication information that is used for acquiring access information in order for the service providing device to be utilized by the image forming device, and an authentication destination such that the information processing device requests authentication to the service providing device when the command unit accepts a registration instruction of the image forming device from the information processing device, and
- wherein a connection unit creates the access information in response to the authentication request, and sets the access information in a request destination of the authentication information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.