Patent Document ID: 9041961
Application ID: 13902007
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system comprising an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to set a sorting information list and a sorting method used for a sort operation; a list transmission unit configured to transmit the sorting information list set by the setting unit to the image forming apparatus; and a sorting unit configured to sort scanned data using tag information based on a sorting method set by the setting unit, wherein the sorting unit adds the tag information, based on the set sorting method, to a folder storing the scanned data, to a file name of the scanned data, or to a file of the scanned data, and the image forming apparatus comprising: a display unit configured, based on the sorting information list transmitted by the list transmission unit, to display a selection screen on which a user can select tag information from the sorting information list; a sorting information transmission unit configured to transmit the tag information selected on the selection screen to the information processing apparatus; and a scanned data transmission unit configured to transmit scanned data to the information processing apparatus.