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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2022
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomoya Ishida, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/445 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01);
Abstract
An object is to lower the ratio of the number of users of an authentication service to the number of users of an application which uses the authentication service. A state of a first application is obtained by executing a second application. Whether to perform authentication processing is determined according to the state of the first application by executing the second application. Moreover, an instruction to perform the authentication processing is issued by executing the first application or the second application in a case where it is determined that the authentication processing is to be performed.