COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND USER APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
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Abstract
To facilitate account information setting, in a communication system including a management apparatus which manages account information to be used to use a service provided by a server apparatus, and a user apparatus which uses the service, the management apparatus selects, based on device classification information acquired from the user apparatus, account information to be provided to the user apparatus from one or more pieces of account information stored in a storage unit, and provides the account information to the user apparatus. The user apparatus sends the device classification information of the user apparatus to the management apparatus, receives, from the management apparatus, the account information selected based on the device classification information, and uses the service provided by the server apparatus.
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27 Claims
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1-17. -17. (canceled)
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18. A communication apparatus comprising:
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a transmitting unit configured to transmit, when performing a sharing process for sharing a communication parameter for communicating with a management apparatus with the management apparatus, device information of the communication apparatus to the management apparatus; an acquisition unit configured to acquire account information, which is used when making a server perform a predetermined function, in accordance with the device information from the management apparatus; and a control unit configured to control, by using the account information acquired by the acquisition unit, for making the server perform the predetermined function. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27)
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26. A method for controlling a communication apparatus comprising the steps of:
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transmitting, when performing a sharing process for sharing a communication parameter for communicating with a management apparatus with the management apparatus, device information of the communication apparatus to the management apparatus; acquiring account information, which is used when making a server perform a predetermined function, in accordance with the device information from the management apparatus; and controlling, by using the acquired account information, for making the server perform the predetermined function.
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