INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140164939A1
• Filed: 11/01/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tamura, Makiya
• Application Number:
  US14/070,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20140164939A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0807 using tickets, e.g. Kerberos cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

In a case where a user needs to perform an operation on a web browser in order to operate an application, the user has to switch between the application and the web browser. The present invention enables an information processing apparatus to perform screen switching from the application to the web browser and from the web browser to the application.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display an operation screen of an application including a process of instructing a first server to perform a process on a second server;

a first screen control unit configured to display a browser on the display unit in a case where authorization information used in the process to be performed by the first server on the second server is invalid, the browser configured to perform an operation of validating the authorization information; and

a second screen control unit configured to display the operation screen of the application on the display unit in a case where the operation of validating the authorization information is completed.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determination unit configured to determine whether the authorization information used in the process to be performed by the first server on the second server is valid, wherein

the first screen control unit displays the browser configured to perform the operation of validating the authorization information, on the display unit in place of the operation screen of the application in a case where the determination unit determines that authorization information is invalid, and

the second screen control unit displays the operation screen of the application on the display unit in place of the browser in a case where the operation of validating the authorization information is completed.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the browser performs the operation of validating the authorization information by using session information between the application and the first server.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the browser deletes the session information upon completion of the operation of validating the authorization information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the browser requests the first server to obtain the authorization information from the second server according to address information notified from the application.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the address information includes call information to call the application, the call information used upon completion of the operation of validating the authorization information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the application is executed in a first execution environment while the browser is executed in a second execution environment different from the first execution environment.

8. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus including a display unit, the method comprising:

a display step of displaying an operation screen of an application including a process of instructing a first server to perform a process on a second server;

a first screen control step of displaying a browser on the display unit in a case where authorization information used in the process to be performed by the first server on the second server is invalid, the browser configured to perform an operation of validating the authorization information; and

a second screen control step of displaying the operation screen of the application on the display unit in a case where the operation of validating the authorization information is completed.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to perform the method according to claim 8.