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

Claim 9:
10. A control method for a scanning system, the scanning system including 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, the control method comprising:
transmitting, by the information processing apparatus, authentication information for access to the cloud server and an address of the cloud server to the image forming apparatus in a first transmission;
receiving, by the image forming apparatus, the authentication information and the address of the cloud server transmitted in the first transmission;
acquiring, from the authorization server, the access token to access the cloud server indicated by the authentication information and the address received; and
transmitting the acquired access token and the image data to the cloud server in a second transmission.