Image processing apparatus and control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuuhei Kawakami
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Abstract
An expense management application of an MFP requests a matter management server to perform user authentication when a user accesses a web server via a web browser and acquires matter information about the authenticated user. Further, the expense management application monitors a parameter log of a service provider and acquires information about a job, when executed by the service provider according to a request from the web server, from the parameter log. Then, the expense management application registers expense information based on the acquired information, as expense information about the acquired matter information, to the matter management server.
Claims8
An image processing apparatus having a service provider for outputting a first log representing information about a job executed according to a request of a service for providing a function in cooperation with the image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a memory storing instructions as an expense management application;
- and
- a processor which is capable of executing the instructions causing the image processing apparatus to:
- request an expense management apparatus to perform user authentication processing in a case where a user accesses the service;
- request the service provider to perform a job in response to a reception of a request from a web application via a network;
- acquire matter information of the user authenticated by the expense management apparatus;
- monitor the first log output by the service provider and acquire job information about a job of the user executed by the service provider according to the request from the web application, from the first log;
- and
- register expense information based on the acquired job information, as expense information of the acquired matter information, to the expense management apparatus.
A control method for an image processing apparatus having a service provider for outputting a first log representing information about a job executed according to a request of a service for providing a function in cooperation with the image processing apparatus, the control method comprising:
- requesting an expense management apparatus to perform user authentication processing in a case where a user accesses the service;
- requesting the service provider to perform a job in response to a reception of a request from a web application via a network;
- acquiring matter information of the user authenticated by the expense management apparatus;
- monitoring the first log output by the service provider and acquiring job information about a job of the user executed by the service provider according to the request from the web application from the first log;
- and
- registering expense information based on the acquired job information, as expense information of the acquired matter information, to the expense management apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.