US 11,687,299 B2
Image processing apparatus with self-determination of communication capability with a server, and image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium thereof
Soichiro Katayama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/397,776.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-135742 (JP), filed on Aug. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0050648 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1239 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01); G06F 3/1273 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. An image processing system, comprising:
an image processing apparatus that includes a storage unit that stores an operation log indicating operation history of the image processing apparatus and a transmission unit that transmits the operation log stored in the storage unit and delete an operation log that is transmitted successfully from the storage unit; and
a server that is connected with the image processing apparatus through a network by way of a relay device that allocates an IP address to a connected device, wherein
the image processing apparatus further includes a determination unit that determines that the connection state with the server is online if an IP address is allocated to the image processing apparatus while no operation log is stored in the storage unit and a permission unit that permits predetermined processing if the connection state with the server is online.