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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
Canon Information and Imaging Solutions, Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Jiuyuan Ge, Centereach, NY (US);
Lance Yiuchong Leung, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Song Cang, Jerico, NY (US);
Jiayin Peng, College Point, NY (US);
Daniel Andrew Doran, Yonkers, NY (US);
CANON INFORMATION AND IMAGING SOLUTIONS, INC., Melville, NY (US);
CANON U.S.A., INC., Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of authorizing one or more features of an application is provided. A first application having a first set of features that control one or more functionality of an image processing device and are always available and a second set of features controlling functionality different from that controlled by the first set of features and which require authorization to be operable. A second application executing on the image processing device includes data representing authorization parameters to selectively authorize one or more of the features in the second set of features. In response to detecting, by the second application, that a feature activation service is registered in an operating system of the image processing device by the first application, the second application communicates the authorization parameter data to the first application to authorize and make operable the one or more features of the second set of features.