Patent ID: 9418217
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An information processing system including at least one computer, the information processing system comprising: an administrator terminal including a browser unit implemented by an application; a device; and a service providing apparatus connected to the administrator terminal and the device via a network, the service providing apparatus including a processor that executes a program, stored in a memory, to implement a device registration unit configured to store device identification information of the device in a first storage unit in response to a device identification information registration request initiated from the browser unit; a generation unit configured to generate user identification information of an unspecified user of the device that has the device identification information stored in the first storage unit; an authentication unit configured to perform authentication in response to an authentication request from the device that has the device identification information stored in the first storage unit, and associate user identification information of a specified user specified in the authentication request with the device when the authentication performed in response to the authentication request based on information specified in the authentication request is successful; and a processing unit configured to execute a process according to the user identification information associated with the device by the authentication unit, the process being executed in response to a request transmitted from the device that has been successfully authenticated based on the authentication request; wherein when the authentication unit receives from the device an authentication request that does not specify user identification information, the authentication unit associates the user identification information of the unspecified user generated by the generation unit with the device, and wherein the generation unit generates the user identification information of the unspecified user in response to the device identification information registration request, and stores the generated user identification information of the unspecified user in a second storage unit in association with the device identification information specified in the device identification information registration request; wherein the authentication request that specifies user identification information and the authentication request that does not specify user identification information correspond to different call requests for calling different interfaces.