Patent ID: 9203817
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A multifunction apparatus, which communicates with an information processing apparatus via a communication network, the information processing apparatus including a first web server section which operates in accordance with software of a web server, comprising: a web browser section which operates in accordance with software of a web browser, the web browser section receiving, from the first web server section, (i) Cookie information and (ii) control information that informs a control instruction to control the multifunction apparatus; a storage section that stores the Cookie information; a control section that controls the multifunction apparatus in accordance with the control instruction when the web browser section receives the control instruction from the first web server section; and a second web server section which operates in accordance with the software of the web server, in a case where the control instruction is an instruction to transmit image data, the control section (i) determining, as specific Cookie information, Cookie information that (a) is stored in the storage section and (b) contains identification information that identifies an external device which is designated, by the instruction to transmit the image data, as a destination to which the image data is transmitted and (ii) transmitting the image data, to which the specific Cookie information is added, to the external device which is designated as the destination to which the image data is transmitted, the web browser section informing the second web server section of the control instruction, when the web browser section receives the control instruction from the first web server section, and the control section controlling the multifunction apparatus in accordance with the control instruction transmitted from the web browser section to the second web server section.