INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20120047450A1
• Filed: 07/06/2011
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sato, Masaaki
• Application Number:
  US13/177,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20120047450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0074 Arrangements for the control of a still picture apparatus by the connected apparatus

Abstract

An information processing apparatus having a web browser analyzes a request that has been input using an operation screen being displayed by the web browser, refers to information, based upon result of this analysis, identifying the type and issuing source of a request, which has been issued from the application or web browser, and an operation screen displayed by the application launched in accordance with the request or by the web browser, and identifies an operation screen that is to be displayed by the application launched in accordance with the request or by the web browser. When the operation screen displayed by the application is identified, the operation screen based upon the web browser is closed and a screen display request is issued to the application.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus having a web server, comprising:

an application configured to execute a function possessed by the information processing apparatus;

a storage unit configured to store information identifying the type and issuing source of a request, which has been issued from the application or the web browser, and an operation screen displayed by the application or the web browser in response to the request;

an analyzing unit configured to analyze a request that has been input using an operation screen being displayed by the web browser or the application;

an identification unit configured to refer to the stored information based upon result of analysis by the analyzing unit and identify an operation screen that is to be displayed by the application or the web browser; and

a requesting unit configured to request the application or the web browser to display the operation screen identified by the identification unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an error response unit configured to display an operation screen by the web browser if it is determined, based upon the result of analysis by the analyzing unit, that the request contains an error.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transition unit configured to transition to display a log-in screen by the web browser when launching of the application is specified using an initial screen of the application.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the requesting unit requests the application to display an operation screen for utilizing the application if a request that has been input using the log-in screen presented by the web browser does not contain an error.

5. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus having a web browser, comprising:

an execution step of executing a function possessed by the information processing apparatus by an application stored in the information processing apparatus;

an analyzing step of analyzing a request that has been input using an operation screen being displayed by the web browser or the application;

an identification step of referring to information, which identifies the type and issuing source of a request that has been issued from the application or web browser and an operation screen displayed by the application or web browser in response to the request, based upon result of analysis in the analyzing step, and identifying an operation screen that is to be displayed by the application or web browser in response to the request; and

a requesting step of requesting the application or web browser to display the operation screen identified in the identification step.