Multifunction peripheral, multifunction peripheral controlling system, and method for controlling multifunction peripheral

摘要

A web browser section makes, to a second web server section, a request for acquisition of operation screen data of an application program executed in an information processing device, when an instruction to activate the application program is received. The second web server section transmits the operation screen data of the application program to the web browser section in accordance with and in response to the request for acquisition. The displaying section displays an operation screen in accordance with the operation screen data obtained by the web browser section from the second web server section.

主权项

1. A multifunction peripheral having a plurality of device functions and which is programmed to be connected to an information processing device via a communication network so as to communicate with the information processing device, the information processing device including a first web server section and an external application section which is programmed to execute an application program, comprising:
a displaying section programmed to display an operation screen in accordance with operation screen data; an operation input section for receiving an instruction input from a user; a second web server section; a storage section arranged to store operation screen data of the application program executed in the information processing device; a web browser section; and a device control section programmed to control an operation of each of the plurality of device functions, the web browser section programmed to make, to the second web server section, a request for acquisition of the operation screen data of the application program executed in the information processing device, when the operation input section receives an instruction to activate the application program, the second web server section (i) programmed to read, from the storage section, the operation screen data of the application program in accordance with the request for acquisition and (ii) programmed to transmit the operation screen data of the application program to the web browser section in response to the request for acquisition, the displaying section programmed to display an operation screen in accordance with the operation screen data obtained by the web browser section from the second web server section, no communication with the information processing device being carried out after the operation input section receives the instruction to activate the application program executed in the information processing device and until the displaying section displays the operation screen in accordance with the operation screen data, the web browser section making, in a case where (i) the operation input section receives an instruction input from a user to the operation screen of the application program and (ii) the instruction input requires the application program to make a request for transmission of a control instruction, a request to the first web server section for transmission of a control instruction in accordance with the instruction input, the device control section controlling an operation of each of the plurality of device functions in accordance with the control instruction obtained by the web browser section from the first web server section.