Patent ID: 8528044

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a registering unit adapted to register first authentication information required to allow a user to access data registered in the information processing apparatus when a first user authentication is executed; a generating unit adapted to generate second authentication information required to allow data transmission from an external apparatus to the information processing apparatus when a second user authentication is executed, the second authentication information different from the first authentication information; a managing unit adapted to manage the first authentication information registered in said registering unit in association with the second authentication information generated by said generating unit; a transmitting unit adapted to transmit the second authentication information generated by said generating unit to the external apparatus; an authenticating unit adapted to receive authentication information from the external apparatus, and perform the second user authentication by utilizing the received authentication information and the second authentication information; and a storing unit adapted to store, when said authenticating unit succeeds in the second user authentication, data transmitted from the external apparatus as data accessible through the first user authentication using the first authentication information managed in association with the second authentication by said managing unit.