Patent ID: 8471913

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for transmitting and receiving information through communication established relative to an external apparatus, comprising: an establishment unit configured to establish the communication relative to the external apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine whether information to be transmitted for specific processing by the external apparatus is selected; a first transmission unit configured to transmit, via the communication, selection information indicating information that is selectable as a subject to be transmitted when said determination unit determines that information to be transmitted for specific processing is not selected; a reception unit configured to receive designation information designating information to be transmitted via the communication, in response to transmission of the selection information; and a second transmission unit configured to transmit selected information via the communication when said determination unit determines that information to be transmitted is selected, and for transmitting information designated by the designation information via the communication when said determination unit determines that information to be transmitted is not selected, wherein the information transmitted by said second transmission unit is image data, the selection information is a thumbnail image, and the specific processing is one of printing and displaying the image data, wherein said determination unit determines that information to be transmitted for specific processing is not selected in a case where the information processing apparatus is in photographing mode.