| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image-reading apparatus that is connectable to a plurality of external information processing apparatuses via a communications network, and that prevents other users from using the image-reading apparatus, even before the setting of an original, when an external information processing apparatus issues a reading request to the image-reading apparatus. SOLUTION: During the time, from the receipt of an image-reading request from a given external information processing apparatus B1 until the performance of a reading start operation, an original reading request from another external information processing apparatus B2 is refused, while a given time has elapsed without the read start operation being performed, a reading request reserved state is released, and the external information processing apparatus B1, which has accepted the reading request is informed accordingly. If a reading request is made by another external information processing apparatus B2 during the time from the performance of the read start operation, until the completion of the reading, the reading request is accepted, with the original reading being reserved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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