Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing apparatus control method, and storage medium

• US 9,043,708 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2011
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Mori, Ryuta
• Primary Examiner(s): BHARGAVA, ANIL K
• Application Number:
  US13/151,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20120005601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• Field of Search: 715/760, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00923 Variably assigning priority H04N1/0092 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to this invention, being capable of communicating with a Web server via a network, receives from the Web server a response to a processing request issued to a Web application of the Web server. The information processing apparatus changes, when screen control information described in a header of the response contains information which designates priority of a screen display by a Web browser of the information processing apparatus, priority of the screen display by the Web browser to the designated priority. When an event to display a screen other than a screen by the Web browser occurs while the Web browser presents a screen display corresponding to the response, the information processing apparatus inhibits an interrupt display by the event in order for the designated priority.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus having a Web browser and being capable of communicating with a Web server via a network, comprising:

a requesting unit that transmits, to the Web server, a request for a screen to be displayed by the Web browser;

a reception unit that receives, from the Web server, a response to the request transmitted by the requesting unit, the response including priority information together with screen information;

an obtaining unit that obtains the priority information included in the response received by the reception unit;

a designating unit that designates display priority of the Web browser in accordance with the priority information obtained by the obtaining unit, the display priority indicating whether or not to display, with priority over a first screen which is to be displayed by an application other than the Web browser, a second screen which corresponds to the screen information included in the response received by the reception unit and is to be displayed by the Web browser; and

a display control unit that, when an event to display the first screen occurs while the Web browser displays the second screen, controls whether or not to display the first screen with priority over the second screen, based on the display priority designated by the designating unit,

wherein at least one of the requesting unit, reception unit, obtaining unit, designating unit and display control unit is implemented by a processor executing computer executable code stored in a memory.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the designating unit changes a display priority that has been assigned to the Web browser based on the priority information obtained by the obtaining unit,

wherein the display control unit performs the control, based on the priority changed by the designating unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a determination unit that determines whether or not to allow to change the display priority assigned to the Web browser.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the determination unit determines to allow to change the display priority assigned to the Web browser in a case where a display priority indicated by the priority information obtained by the obtaining unit is within a predetermined range.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising,

a reading unit that reads an image from an original document and generates image data;

and

a printing unit that prints image data on a printing medium.

6. An information processing system comprising a Web server and an information processing apparatus having a Web browser and being capable of communicating with the Web server via a network,

the Web server comprising:

a first reception unit that receives a request for a screen to be displayed by the Web browser from the information processing apparatus; and

a transmission unit that transmits, in response to the request received by the first reception unit, a response including priority information together with screen information, and

the information processing apparatus comprising;

a requesting unit that transmits, to the Web server, the request for the screen to be displayed by the Web browser;

a second reception unit that receives the response transmitted by the transmission unit of the Web server;

an obtaining unit that obtains the priority information included in the response received by the second reception unit;

a designating unit that designates display priority of the Web browser in accordance with the priority information obtained by the obtaining unit, the display priority indicating whether or not to display, with priority over a first screen which is to be displayed by an application other than the Web browser, a second screen which corresponds to the screen information included in the response received by the second reception unit and is to be displayed by the Web browser; and

a display control unit that, when an event to display the first screen occurs while the Web browser displays the second screen, controls whether or not to display the first screen with priority over the second screen, based on the display priority designated by the designating unit,

wherein at least one of the first reception unit, transmission unit, requesting unit, second reception unit, obtaining unit, designating unit and display control unit is implemented by a processor executing computer executable code stored in a memory.

7. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus having a Web browser and being capable of communicating with a Web server via a network, the method executed by the information processing apparatus comprising:

transmitting, to the Web server, a request for a screen to be displayed by the Web browser;

receiving, from the Web server, a response to the request transmitted from the information processing apparatus, the response including priority information together with screen information;

obtaining the priority information included in the received response; and

designating display priority of the Web browser in accordance with the obtained priority information, the display priority indicating whether or not to display, with priority over a first screen which is to be displayed by an application other than the Web browser, a second screen which corresponds to the screen information included in the received response and is to be displayed by the Web browser; and

controlling, when an event to display the first screen occurs while the Web browser displays the second screen, whether or not to display the first screen with priority over the second screen, based on the designated display priority.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores a program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus having a Web browser and being capable of communicating with a Web server via a network, the program causing the computer to function as:

a requesting unit that transmits, to the Web server, a request for a screen to be displayed by the Web browser;

a reception unit that receives, from the Web server, a response to the request transmitted by the requesting unit, the response including priority information together with screen information,

an obtaining unit that obtains the priority information included in the response received by the reception unit;

a designating unit that designates display priority of the Web browser in accordance with the priority information obtained by the obtaining unit, the display priority indicating whether or not to display, with priority over a first screen which is to be displayed by an application other than the Web browser, a second screen which corresponds to the screen information included in the response received by the reception unit and is to be displayed by the Web browser; and

a display control unit that, when an event to display the first screen occurs while the Web browser displays the second screen, controls whether or not to display the first screen with priority over the second screen, based on the display priority designated by the designating unit.