Patent ID: 8730510

Claim:
An image input system comprising: a server; an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with said server via the Internet; image input apparatuses configured to communicate with said information processing apparatus via a local network, and to communicate with said server via the Internet, wherein said server comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire transmission capacity information of said image input apparatuses searched by a search request from said information processing apparatus to search said image input apparatuses; a selection unit configured to select a transmission route through which image information generated by an image input apparatus selected by said information processing apparatus from among said image input apparatuses searched, from among a first route that directly transmit image information to said server and a second route that transmit image information to said server via said image processing apparatus based on the transmission capacity information; and a job message transmission unit configured to transmit a job message that makes the selected image input apparatus generate image information and execute transmission of the image information through the transmission route selected by said selection unit to said information processing apparatus, wherein said information processing apparatus comprises: a job transmission unit configured to transmit the job message to the image input apparatus selected as a job command, wherein each of said image input apparatuses comprises: an execution unit configured to generate the image information and to transmit it to said server according to the job command.