Abstract: An access management system including a server is provided. The server receives, from a client device, a request to log into the server with first information specifying identifying a user that has logged into the client device and second information specifying the client device. The server authenticates the client device using the second information and accesses a service provided by an external apparatus and receive a token for accessing the service. The server associates, in memory, the first information with the received token to enable subsequent access to the service, by the server.

Abstract: An access management system including a server is provided. The server receives, from a client device, a request to log into the server with first information specifying identifying a user that has logged into the client device and second information specifying the client device. The server authenticates the client device using the second information and accesses a service provided by an external apparatus and receive a token for accessing the service. The server associates, in memory, the first information with the received token to enable subsequent access to the service, by the server.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus requests a server to permit a user to automatically log in to the information processing apparatus, and the server, based on face recognition processing for an image in which the user is imaged, permits the automatic login, and then the information processing apparatus provides its function to the user in response to the permission. The information processing apparatus inquires the server about whether a condition for the user to automatically log out from the information processing apparatus has been satisfied, and the server, based on face recognition processing for an image in which the user or another user is imaged, informs the information processing apparatus that the condition has been satisfied, and then the information processing apparatus stops providing its function to the user in response to the information.

Abstract: A device specifies status data that should be uploaded to a management system using condition data and calculation logic, and uploads only status data that should be uploaded.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus requests a server to permit a user to automatically log in to the information processing apparatus, and the server, based on face recognition processing for an image in which the user is imaged, permits the automatic login, and then the information processing apparatus provides its function to the user in response to the permission. The information processing apparatus inquires the server about whether a condition for the user to automatically log out from the information processing apparatus has been satisfied, and the server, based on face recognition processing for an image in which the user or another user is imaged, informs the information processing apparatus that the condition has been satisfied, and then the information processing apparatus stops providing its function to the user in response to the information.

Abstract: There is provided a device information registration system in which an IP address of a login device is detected from a first management apparatus, and the detected IP address and position information of the device in an image captured by a network camera are associated and registered in a device information table.

Abstract: A flow service server group manages a job consisting of multiple tasks generated according to a user request, and a task server acquires a task included in the aforementioned managed job if a processing standby status exists, and carries out specific task processing. The task server notifies the flow service server group at a fixed interval that task processing is in progress. The flow service server group then issues a command to the task server that has not completed task processing within a prescribed time to suspend the task processing, and issues a command to a task server capable of task processing that is identical to the task processing to alternatively execute the task processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism to acquire content that has not been converted into print data from a vendor server providing a print service. The mechanism acquires content data corresponding to content identification information from an application server if location information about print data acquired on the basis of the content identification information that is acquired coincides with location information about print data included in notification information that is acquired.

Abstract: A device specifies status data that should be uploaded to a management system using condition data and calculation logic, and uploads only status data that should be uploaded.

Abstract: A mediation service accepts a coordination instruction for coordinating a web application server with a coordination device from a web browser, generates a script to be authenticated by an authentication method corresponding to the server, and transmits the generated script to the coordination destination service providing system indicated by the coordination instruction. The web browser transmits authentication information or an authentication token, which is obtained in response to an input operation on an authentication information input screen displayed by execution of the script, to the coordination device. Then, the coordination device receives and saves the authentication information or the authentication token.

Abstract: A print server apparatus includes a receiving unit, an extraction unit, an acquisition unit, and an instruction unit. The receiving unit receives a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser to use the displayed edit screen, thereby executing edit processing of the document. The extraction unit extracts identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL. The acquisition unit acquires the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen. The instruction unit instructs a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.

Abstract: A printing system includes a web application server, a storage client apparatus, and a printing apparatus to save the storage capacity. The storage client provides stored bibliographic information data to a web application server and, when the storage client apparatus acquires print instruction from the web application server, the storage client apparatus provides data, to be stored in the storage client apparatus, to the web application server in response to a provision request from the web application server. The printing apparatus acquires and prints corresponding data after acquiring a print request from the web application server. The web application server manages information of the storage client apparatus and the printing apparatus, sends display data to a client apparatus operated by a user, and acts on storage, print, and query requests.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism to acquire content that has not been converted into print data from a vendor server providing a print service. The mechanism acquires content data corresponding to content identification information from an application server if location information about print data acquired on the basis of the content identification information that is acquired coincides with location information about print data included in notification information that is acquired.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that appropriately selects a push-type printing method or a pull-type printing method according to an image forming apparatus that requested data to be printed, thus effectively allowing the image forming apparatus to have the advantages of the respective printing methods. To accomplish this, in the information processing apparatus, when a request from a web browser of the image forming apparatus has been received, the information processing apparatus selects whether to transmit image data to the image forming apparatus by a first method in which image data is transmitted to the web browser as a response to the request from the web browser, or by a second method in which image data is transmitted as a new request without employing the web browser, and the information processing apparatus transmits the image data to the image forming apparatus according to the selected method.

Abstract: A flow service server group manages a job consisting of multiple tasks generated according to a user request, and a task server acquires a task included in the aforementioned managed job if a processing standby status exists, and carries out specific task processing. The task server notifies the flow service server group at a fixed interval that task processing is in progress. The flow service server group then issues a command to the task server that has not completed task processing within a prescribed time to suspend the task processing, and issues a command to a task server capable of task processing that is identical to the task processing to alternatively execute the task processing.

Abstract: A print intermediary server capable of communicating with a web application server and a printing apparatus via the Internet manages information of one or more printing apparatuses, searches information of a printing apparatus requested by the web application server out of the information of one or more printing apparatuses to generate a response to the web application server, associates information indicating a storage location of print data whose printing has been requested by the web application server and information indicating a printing apparatus which has been requested to perform printing, stores the associated information as a print job, extracts, in response to a print job request from the printing apparatus, a print job associated with the printing apparatus which has made the print job request out of the stored print jobs, and generates a print job response to be transmitted to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A mediation service accepts a coordination instruction for coordinating a web application server with a coordination device from a web browser, generates a script to be authenticated by an authentication method corresponding to the server, and transmits the generated script to the coordination destination service providing system indicated by the coordination instruction. The web browser transmits authentication information or an authentication token, which is obtained in response to an input operation on an authentication information input screen displayed by execution of the script, to the coordination device. Then, the coordination device receives and saves the authentication information or the authentication token.

Abstract: A server comprising means for managing bibliographic information of data, means for sending display data used to display the bibliographic information of the data to a client, means for managing a data provision request to a storage and a print request to a printer, in response to a print request issued from the client to print the data stored in the storage, means for notifying the storage of the provision request and storage location information, in response to a query for the provision request issued by the storage, means for adding the storage location information of the data to be printed to the bibliographic information of the data when the data is provided from the storage, and means for notifying the printer of the print request and storage location information of the data, in response to a query for the print request issued by the printer.

Abstract: A print server apparatus includes a receiving unit, an extraction unit, an acquisition unit, and an instruction unit. The receiving unit receives a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser to use the displayed edit screen, thereby executing edit processing of the document. The extraction unit extracts identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL. The acquisition unit acquires the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen. The instruction unit instructs a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that appropriately selects a push-type printing method or a pull-type printing method according to an image forming apparatus that requested data to be printed, thus effectively allowing the image forming apparatus to have the advantages of the respective printing methods. To accomplish this, in the information processing apparatus, when a request from a web browser of the image forming apparatus has been received, the information processing apparatus selects whether to transmit image data to the image forming apparatus by a first method in which image data is transmitted to the web browser as a response to the request from the web browser, or by a second method in which image data is transmitted as a new request without employing the web browser, and the information processing apparatus transmits the image data to the image forming apparatus according to the selected method.