Patent ID: 11930150
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A scanning system comprising:
an information processing apparatus;
an image forming apparatus configured to generate image data by scanning a document;
an authorization server configured to issue an access token to access a cloud server; and
a cloud server configured to provide a cloud service,
wherein the information processing apparatus includes a processor that causes the information processing apparatus to function as:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire the access token from the authorization server; and
a first transmission unit configured to transmit the access token and an address of the cloud server to the image forming apparatus, and

wherein the image forming apparatus includes:
a reception unit configured to receive the address and the access token transmitted from the first transmission unit;
a scanning unit configured to scan a document based on the reception of the address and the access token by the reception unit; and
a second transmission unit configured to transmit the access token and image data generated by scanning the document by the scanning unit to the cloud server.