Patent ID: 8390853

Claim:
An image processing system comprising an image processing device and a management server, the image processing device including: an information receiver operable to receive, from the management server, a list of service identifiers each of which identifies a corresponding image processing service which is not available in the image processing device and to be implemented by an external device; a reception unit operable to (i) display the received list, and (ii) receive, from a user, a selection of a service identifier from the list, and a designation of object image data to be used for the image processing service identified by the selected service identifier, and (iii) obtain the designated object image data; a data transmitter operable to transmit the selected service identifier and the designated object image data to the management server, and the management server including: an information storage unit storing the list; an information transmitter operable to transmit the list to the image processing device; a data receiver operable to receive the service identifier and the object image data transmitted from the image processing device; a requester operable to transmit the received service identifier and the received object image data to the external device, and request to implement the image processing service identified by the received service identifier; and a result transferrer operable to receive, from the external device, processed data of the object image data which was obtained by implementing the selected image processing service in the external device, and transfers the processed data to the image processing device.