Patent ID: 8320007

Claim:
A network scanning system comprising: an image scanning system including a display unit and an image scanning device; and a control apparatus which is connected to the image scanning system via a network and includes a scanning application for controlling the image scanning system remotely via the network, wherein the scanning application in the control apparatus receives a command from the image scanning system and in response to receiving the command, automatically transmits, to the display unit of the image scanning system via the network without a user operation of the scanning application in the control apparatus, a selection screen information including items, each of which represent a kind of processing for an image of a document to be scanned by the image scanning system, wherein the image scanning system displays, on the display unit, a selection menu based on the selection screen information received from the scanning application in the control apparatus via the network, and the image scanning system transmits, to the scanning application in the control apparatus via the network, a selection item information specifying an item, selected by an operation of a user of the display unit, among the items in the selection menu displayed on the display unit, and wherein the scanning application in the control apparatus, in response to receiving the selection item information from the image scanning system, automatically transmits, to the image scanning system without a user operation of the scanning application in the control apparatus, a control signal based on the selection item information received from the image scanning system via the network, and the scanning application in the control apparatus automatically controls the image scanning system remotely in accordance with the control signal via the network.