INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SETTING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION FOR USE BY IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR

• US 20120154863A1
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: FUSE, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,001,359 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00416 Multi-level menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3204 of data relating to a user, sender, addressee, machine or electronic recording medium H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3207 of an address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3218 of a confirmation, acknowledgement or receipt
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3219 of a job status, e.g. successful execution

Abstract

An information processing apparatus capable of easily registering and deleting configuration information and providing excellent user-friendliness. An integrated application that operates on the information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus through a network sets configuration information for use by the image processing apparatus for data transmission, and instructs the image processing apparatus to display an icon corresponding to the configuration information on a touch panel of the image processing apparatus. When one of icons displayed on the touch panel is touched, data is transmitted from the image processing apparatus to a transmission destination represented by the confirmation information corresponding to the icon. If the data is successfully received by the transmission destination, the integrated application instructs the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the touched icon.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus through a network, comprising:

a setting unit configured to set configuration information for use by the image processing apparatus for data transmission;

a display instructing unit configured to instruct the image processing apparatus to display on a display unit of the image processing apparatus at least one mark corresponding to at least one piece of configuration information set by said setting unit; and

a deletion instructing unit configured to instruct the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to one selected from the at least one mark displayed on the display unit on condition that data transmitted from the image processing apparatus to a transmission destination that is indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark is successfully received by the transmission destination.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the at least one piece of configuration information is set with an expiration date of the configuration information, and

said deletion instructing unit instructs the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark in a case where the expiration date of the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark expires and auto-deletion is set.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the at least one piece of configuration information is set with a limited number of times of use of the configuration information, and

said deletion instructing unit instructs the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark in a case where a number of times of use of the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark exceeds the limited number of times of use and auto-deletion is set.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the transmission destination indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark is the information processing apparatus, said deletion instructing unit instructs the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark, if the data transmitted from the image processing apparatus has been browsed or referred to by a user.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further including:

a confirmation setting unit configured to establish a confirmation setting that indicates whether a confirmation to a user is to be made prior to deletion of the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark; and

a deletion confirmation unit configured to make a deletion confirmation to the user about the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark in a case where the confirmation setting indicating that the confirmation is to be made has been established by said confirmation setting unit,

wherein said deletion instructing unit instructs the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark in a case where the deletion confirmation to the user is made by said deletion confirmation.

6. A control method for an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus through a network, comprising:

a setting step of setting configuration information for use by the image processing apparatus for data transmission;

a display instructing step of instructing the image processing apparatus to display on a display unit of the image processing apparatus at least one mark corresponding to at least one piece of configuration information set in said setting step; and

a deletion instructing step of instructing the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to one selected from the at least one mark displayed on the display unit on condition that data transmitted from the image processing apparatus to a transmission destination that is indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark is successfully received by the transmission destination.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the control method as set forth in claim 6.