Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and proxy method for connection of information processing apparatuses

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7969594
APP PUB NO 20070229876A1
SERIAL NO

11693868

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An object of this invention is to implement a user-friendly proxy process in a network system in which a plurality of devices connect to each other. According to this invention, an information processing method for an information processing apparatus which manages a license for a job process and communicably connects to a plurality of devices that are to execute a process for a job whose license is held includes a step of selecting, from the plurality of devices, a device which is to execute a proxy process of a job, a step of, when the selected device does not have a license to execute the process of the job, outputting the license as a file, and a step of monitoring whether the selected device has executed the proxy process of the job using the file, and when the proxy process is complete, requesting return of the output file.

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CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAOHTA-KU TOKYO 146-8501

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Takashima, Keiichi Kawasaki, JP 19 215

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