Patent ID: 8675227

Claim:
An information processing system comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses, each image forming apparatus including a service provider capable of using an external server in correspondence with a function of the image forming apparatus, wherein a first image forming apparatus includes: a correspondence determination unit that determines which function in the first image forming apparatus the service provider of the first image forming apparatus corresponds to; a provider determination unit that determines a second image forming apparatus in the plurality of image forming apparatuses that includes the same service provider as the service provider of the first image forming apparatus; a license verification unit that verifies whether license information is assigned to the service provider of the second image forming apparatus determined by the provider determination unit; and an assignment unit that assigns, to the second image forming apparatus to which the license information is not assigned, license information of the service provider from the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus and server relation information that is information for accessing a server, wherein the assignment unit of the first image forming apparatus changes access permission to the server to which the first image forming apparatus can connect from the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus.