Patent ID: 9286126
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus connected via a network to a plurality of service providing devices and a predetermined information processing apparatus, comprising: a central processing unit that controls the information processing apparatus; and a memory that stores instructions to be executed by the central processing unit of the information processing apparatus so as to perform a method including the steps of: accepting a type of service; acquiring a selection policy for selecting the service providing devices that lay open to public types of providable services and service level information; acquiring service type information and the service level information from the predetermined information processing apparatus which detects the service providing devices and collects the service type information including the types of providable services of the service providing devices and the service level information; selecting the service providing devices that provide the type of service accepted by the accepting step based on the service type information; determining one or more service providing devices, from the service providing devices selected by the selecting step, according to the selection policy, and performing the service by the selected one or more service providing devices, each of the selected one or more service providing devices providing at least one of an Optical Character Recognition process, and an electronic mail transmission process as services,