Patent ID: 9154504
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A image forming apparatus that communicates via a network with a server system that provides a print service to an external apparatus and an approval server system and installs a print application that uses the print service, the image forming apparatus comprising: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first authority information to be issued by the approval server system in response to an approval operation that permits delegating user authority required to use the print service to the image forming apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive identification information required to identify a user who uses the print service from the print application that starts batch processing at a predetermined time having been set beforehand; an identifying unit configured to identify the first authority information based on the received identification information; and a second acquisition unit configured to transmit a request to delegate authority, if the request is delegated from the user, to the print application, together with the identified first authority information, to the approval server system and acquire second authority information, which has been issued based on the first authority information, from the approval server system wherein the second acquisition unit is configured to acquire an application ID of the print application, transmit the request to delegate the authority delegated from the user to the print application, together with the first authority information and the application ID, to the approval server system, and acquire the second authority information managed in association with the application ID from the approval server system, and wherein the print application is configured to acquire the second authority information from the second acquisition unit and receive the print service based on the acquired second authority information.