Patent ID: 7844910

Claim:
A linking information making device comprising: a service search server comprising: a service list acquisition section which acquires a service list expressing respective services each of which execute predetermined processings on document data, the respective services being provided by a plurality of currently-available service processing devices; a client terminal in communication with the service list acquisition section, the client terminal comprising: an interface information acquisition section which acquires, for each of the currently-available services being provided, a respective piece of interface information including a method by which the corresponding predetermined processing is started, and a linking information making section which makes linking information to be used for linking the predetermined processings based on the interface information which has been acquired by the interface information acquisition section, and transmits the linking information, the linking information including information to be displayed on respective screens of one or more of the currently-available service processing devices and to be selected by a user operating one of the screens when the user instructs to start linking the predetermined processings; and an instruction sheet management server comprising: a management section which stores the transmitted linking information and further transmits the stored linking information to the one or more of the currently-available service processing devices for displaying on the screen based on a request from the currently-available service processing devices, wherein the client terminal further comprises a display which displays a first window including a first icon corresponding to first interface information acquired by the interface information acquisition section, a second window including a second icon corresponding to a linking pattern, and a third window including linked first and second icons dragged and dropped from the first and second windows by the user, and the linking information making section makes the linking information in accordance with the linked first and second icons in the third window and makes the linking information without specifying a service processing device, the interface information includes a predetermined parameter restriction rule which restricts an input and an output, the linking information includes a control structure, a logical operation and an arithmetic operation.