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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hideki Sugiyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00973 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A first application installed on a multifunction peripheral (MFP) request a network communication unit to check a second application installed on the MFP to use an external service. The first application controls, according to a result of checking of the second application, registration processing for registering function information (intent element) used to cooperate with the external service by a relay function using a mechanism of Web Intents, or invocation processing by the relay function for invoking the external service using the registered function information.