US 11,943,397 B2
Information processing apparatus configured to communicate with and log into an external device, control method therefor, and storage medium
Masaaki Sato, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/158,766.
Application 18/158,766 is a continuation of application No. 17/469,722, filed on Sep. 8, 2021, granted, now 11,582,357.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-154019 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171350 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 1/00342 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00307 (2013.01); H04N 1/00413 (2013.01); H04N 1/4413 (2013.01); H04N 1/4433 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04N 2201/006 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
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14. An information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an external device and to execute an application, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a transmitter for, without accepting user operation by the information processing apparatus, transmitting a login request for logging into the external device to the external device, based on a short-range wireless communication being established between the information processing apparatus and the external device in a state where the application is operating in a background state on the information processing apparatus,
wherein the application displays a screen including a plurality of buttons for selecting a function from a plurality of functions provided by the application, and the plurality of buttons includes a button for executing a function to transmit the login request to the external device, and
wherein the login request is transmitted in a case where the application is operating in the background state when the short-range wireless communication is established, and a print job is transmitted in a case where the application is operating in a foreground state and the application is displaying a predetermined screen when the short-range wireless communication is established.