Information processing apparatus capable of setting configuration information for use by an image processing apparatus, and control method and storage medium therefor

• US 9,001,359 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Fuse, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Payer, Paul F
• Application Number:
  US13/326,488
• Publication Number:
  US 20120154863A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 used 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;

a selecting unit configured to select, based on a user instruction, a mark from the at least one mark displayed on the display unit;

a determination unit configured to determine, after the mark is selected by said selecting unit, whether data has been already referred to by a user after the data has been transmitted from the image processing apparatus to a transmission destination that is indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark; and

a deletion instructing unit configured to instruct the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark if it is determined by said determination unit that the data has been already referred to by the user.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an expiration date of the configuration information is set, 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.

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

a confirmation setting receiving unit configured to receive 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 received by said confirmation setting receiving 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 unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a limited number of times of use of the configuration information is set, 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.

5. 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 referred to by a user.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mark is an icon.

7. 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 used 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;

a selecting step of selecting, based on a user instruction, a mark from the at least one mark displayed on the display unit;

a determining step of determining, after the mark is selected in said selecting step, whether data has been already referred to by a user after the data has been transmitted from the image processing apparatus to a transmission destination that is indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark; and

a deletion instructing step of instructing the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark if it is determined in said determining step that the data has been already referred to by the user.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method for an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus through a network, the control method comprising:

a setting step of setting configuration information used 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 selecting step of selecting, based on a user instruction, a mark from the at least one mark displayed on the display unit;

a determining step of determining, after the mark is selected in said selecting step, whether data has been already referred to by a user after the data has been transmitted from the image processing apparatus to a transmission destination that is indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark; and

a deletion instructing step of instructing the image processing apparatus to delete the configuration information corresponding to the selected mark if it is determined in said determining step that the data has been already referred to by the user.

9. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a storing unit configured to store a transmitting setting;

a transmitting unit configured to send image data to a transmission destination according to the transmitting setting stored in the storing unit; and

a deletion unit configured to delete the transmitting setting used for transmitting of the image data by the transmitting unit if the image data transmitted by the transmitting unit has been referred to by a user after the image data was received at the transmission destination.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a receiving unit configured to receive the transmitting setting from an information processing apparatus via a network, wherein the storing unit stores the transmitting setting received by the receiving unit.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the transmitting setting includes information indicating a folder of the transmission destination.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the transmitting setting includes a transmission destination of image data.