Image Processing Apparatus Selective Service Information Supply
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing apparatuses face challenges in dynamically managing and securing service information, as they often provide unnecessary data to Web servers, leading to increased data exchange and potential leakage of sensitive information.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus with a determination unit to assess whether to supply information based on the accessing entity, and a notification unit to selectively provide service information, ensuring only necessary data is exchanged and maintaining security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If service information is supplied to the Web server, then the Web server can provide operations screens and execute processing, but unnecessary data is exchanged and sensitive information leakage risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively supplying service information based on the destination URL. The determination unit analyzes the accessed URL and determines whether to supply service information specifically for that destination. This allows the system to provide necessary information for Web server operations while preventing unnecessary information from being transmitted, thereby reducing sensitive information leakage risks.
2Productivity
If service information is supplied to the Web server, then processing can be executed, but data exchange volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by supplying only the necessary service information relevant to the accessed URL rather than supplying all service information unconditionally. The determination unit evaluates the specific URL destination and provides service information selectively, reducing the overall data exchange volume while ensuring processing can still be executed for legitimate operations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If service information is supplied unconditionally, then all services can be notified, but information supply becomes excessive and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the service information supply conditional based on the accessed URL destination. Instead of unconditionally supplying all service information, the system dynamically determines whether to supply information based on the specific URL accessed by the Web browser. This dynamic approach improves information supply efficiency by avoiding unnecessary transmissions.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus connected to a Web server and including a Web browser for displaying an operation screen provided by the Web server and a processing unit that, when requested to execute image processing by the Web server based on access from the Web browser, executes the requested image processing, where it is determined, depending on a destination of access by the Web browser, whether or not to supply information about the image processing apparatus to the destination of access, and if it is determined that the information about the image processing apparatus should be supplied, the information about the image processing apparatus is supplied to the destination of access made by the Web browser.