Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing system

摘要

An information processing apparatus includes: an external device's information obtaining unit for obtaining external device's information containing held function's information on functions held by an external device from the network-connected external device; an application obtaining unit for obtaining an application used for utilizing a function requested to be executed by the external device from a network-connected application providing server, the function being contained in the held function's information; and an external device's function execution request unit for requesting the external device to execute a function held by the external device based on the obtained external device's information and the application.