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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2005
Masanori Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Toshiyuki Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Myoki, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention has as its object to improve the convenience of a client user when the client establishes communication connection to a server which can improve resources in session management. To this end, in an information processing method according to this invention, a client, which can request a predetermined process to a server via an application while communication connection with the server is established, identifies a field on a display, to which an operation has been made by an input device, generates a dummy request, which includes information required to maintain communication connection, or a request, which includes information required to maintain communication connection and a predetermined processing request, in accordance with the identified field, and transmits the generated request to the server. Even when a predetermined processing request is not made to the server, the client can maintain communications with the server if some operation is made.