INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20200133590A1
• Filed: 10/17/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Kotaro
• Granted Patent: US 11,068,210 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1226 Discovery of devices having required properties
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to various embodiments causes a Bluetooth® device to which connection of the web application is permitted to execute a request via a web browser and an operating system (OS) by using Bluetooth® communication, thereby acquiring an identifier of the Bluetooth® device.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus that a web browser operates on and that executes a web application provided by a server by using the web browser, the information processing apparatus comprising at least one memory storing instructions related to the web application, wherein the instructions cause the information processing apparatus to:

execute an acquisition instruction for acquiring an identifier of a device by using the web browser; and

transmit, to the server, an identifier included in a response returned from the device following the acquisition instruction.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to execute a search instruction to search for a device capable of communicating with the information processing apparatus via Bluetooth®

by using the web browser in a case where the information processing apparatus is instructed to make a search using Bluetooth®

via a screen provided by the web application, and

wherein the acquisition instruction is executed for a device for which it is determined that connection of the web application is permitted using the web browser.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, to determine whether the connection of the web application is permitted, the web browser displays a prompt including information about one or more devices that have responded to a request executed by an operating system (OS) of the information processing apparatus based on the search instruction.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, in the information processing apparatus, based on a device having been selected on the prompt as a target for permission, pairing for communication using Bluetooth®

is executed between the information processing apparatus and the selected device.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to execute a determination instruction to determine whether each of the one or more devices that have responded based on the search instruction is of a specific type, and

wherein, on the prompt, information only about a device that has been determined as the specific type based on the determination instruction is displayed.

6. A method for an information processing apparatus that a web browser operates on and that executes a web application provided by a server by using the web browser, the method comprising:

executing an acquisition instruction for acquiring an identifier of a device by using the web browser; and

transmitting, to the server, an identifier included in a response returned from the device following the acquisition instruction.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, which is related to a web application provided by a server, cause a computer to:

execute an acquisition instruction for acquiring an identifier of a device by using a web browser, the web browser in which the web application is executed; and

transmit, to the server, an identifier included in a response returned from the device following the acquisition instruction.