Abstract: A service providing system includes a first apparatus that stores first attribute data including status information on the first apparatus and setting information on a function of the first apparatus, updates the first attribute data to contents specified by a modification instruction if the modification instruction of the first attribute data is received from a user, and establishes synchronization via a first connection such that, in a second apparatus storing second attribute data corresponding to the first attribute data, contents of the second attribute data become identical to contents of the updated first attribute data; and the second apparatus that, if a modification instruction of the second attribute data is received from a user, updates the second attribute data to contents specified by the modification instruction of the second attribute data, and establishes synchronization via the first connection such that, in the first apparatus, contents of the first attribute data become identical to conten

Abstract: A service providing system includes a first apparatus including at least one agent unit that is connected to a service providing a pre-configured function over the Internet, and an execution unit that has first attribute data including state information about the first apparatus and setting information about a function of the first apparatus, and uses the first attribute data to execute an instructed function in cooperation with the agent unit, in a case of receiving the instruction regarding execution of the function; and a second apparatus including a shadow execution unit that has second attribute data corresponding to the first attribute data and executes the instruction received from the service and a process requested by the execution unit, in which through a first connection provided between the execution unit and the shadow execution unit, the execution unit checks whether there is a message generated by the shadow execution unit, acquires the message in a case where there is the message, and delivers

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that performs a process, a controller that performs a control operation to cause the processing unit to perform the process requested by a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a display apparatus that displays process results of the process, and a notification unit that notifies the display apparatus of the process results through communication different from an HTTP response responsive to the HTTP request having requested the process to be performed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes following components. A memory stores user identification information identifying a user, terminal identification information identifying a terminal used as a user interface of the information processing apparatus, and operational context information indicating a status of an operation performed on the terminal in association with one another. An execution unit executes a process. A memory controller controls, in response to the user switching the terminal from a first terminal to a second terminal, the memory to change the terminal identification information from information identifying the first terminal to information identifying the second terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit acquiring a user list, a group list, and an authority list, a second acquisition unit acquiring method data indicating a method of determining, with respect to a target user, a group to which the user belongs from the group list and an authority applied to the group from the authority list, a reception unit that receives a request for a process from a user, transmitted from a terminal, a third acquisition unit acquiring transmission source data including information regarding the user or the terminal, a determination unit determining a group to which the user making the request belongs and an authority applied to the group from the lists according to a method indicated by the method data, and a generation unit generating authority data in which the user making the request is correlated with the determined authority.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes following components. A memory stores user identification information identifying a user, terminal identification information identifying a terminal used as a user interface of the information processing apparatus, and operational context information indicating a status of an operation performed on the terminal in association with one another. An execution unit executes a process. A memory controller controls, in response to the user switching the terminal from a first terminal to a second terminal, the memory to change the terminal identification information from information identifying the first terminal to information identifying the second terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first receiving unit that receives authentication information from software that functions as a web client through a first communication path using a first communication protocol; a transmitting unit that, if authentication using the received authentication information is successful, permits communication through the first communication path, and transmits access permission information to the software through the first communication path; a second receiving unit that receives an establishment request for a second communication path using a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, from the software; and an establishing unit that, if the transmitted access permission information is included in the received establishment request, establishes the second communication path to the software.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes following components. A memory stores user identification information identifying a user, terminal identification information identifying a terminal used as a user interface of the information processing apparatus, and operational context information indicating a status of an operation performed on the terminal in association with one another. An execution unit executes a process. A memory controller controls, in response to the user switching the terminal from a first terminal to a second terminal, the memory to change the terminal identification information from information identifying the first terminal to information identifying the second terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that performs a process, a controller that performs a control operation to cause the processing unit to perform the process requested by a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a display apparatus that displays process results of the process, and a notification unit that notifies the display apparatus of the process results through communication different from an HTTP response responsive to the HTTP request having requested the process to be performed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first receiving unit that receives authentication information from software that functions as a web client through a first communication path using a first communication protocol; a transmitting unit that, if authentication using the received authentication information is successful, permits communication through the first communication path, and transmits access permission information to the software through the first communication path; a second receiving unit that receives an establishment request for a second communication path using a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, from the software; and an establishing unit that, if the transmitted access permission information is included in the received establishment request, establishes the second communication path to the software.