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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM

  • US 20120096544A1
  • Filed: 09/21/2011
  • Published: 04/19/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

  • an acquisition unit that acquires, from each of a plurality of applications operating on said information processing apparatus, a sharing condition of a user credential with another application, which has been defined for each of a plurality of items of the user credential including information for certifying a user;

    a generation unit that generates, based on the acquired sharing condition, sharing settings which defines the sharing condition for each item of the user credential among applications, and stores the generated sharing settings in a memory;

    a holding unit that holds, in a memory, the user credential sent from at least one of the applications; and

    a provision unit that provides, upon receiving a request of the user credential from one of the applications, the user credential to the requesting application according to the sharing settings stored in the memory.

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