| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of requesting Web services from a Web browser without installing software such as drivers for utilizing a plurality of image forming functions in a computer terminal that a user uses, and without depending on a machine type of the computer terminal or its operating system, and capable of also uniformly processing a process request from other equipment. <P>SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes: at least one Web service providing process means for performing an image forming process or processing internal information concerning the image forming process based on a process request, and generating a process response showing a process result; and a compound Web service providing process means for processing the internal information by executing a process unit comprising the Web service providing process means, and generating the process response showing a process result. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
