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

Claim 8:
9. 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:
acquiring, by the information processing apparatus, the access token from the authorization server;
transmitting, by the information processing apparatus, the access token and an address of the cloud server in a first transmission;
receiving, by the image forming apparatus, the address and the access token transmitted in the first transmission;
scanning, by the image forming apparatus, a document based on the reception of the address and the access token; and
transmitting, by the image forming apparatus, the image data generated by scanning the document and the access token to the cloud server in a second transmission.