An image forming apparatus equipped with a sleep function and for forming an image using an image forming unit and a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that controls the image forming unit. When a job is received in a sleep state, a port number of the received job is discriminated, whether or not to perform initialization processing of the image forming unit is determined based on the discriminated port number, and in a case that it is determined that initialization processing of the image forming unit is necessary, initialization processing of the image forming unit is started and thereafter the control unit is controlled to start processing of the job.

An electronic device includes a setting unit configured to set setting information of an operation of the electronic device according to common setting information; a designation information acquisition unit configured to acquire designation information, which designates an acquisition origin of the common setting information, via a network; and a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire the common setting information from the acquisition origin of the common setting information designated by the designation information acquired by the designation information acquisition unit.

In an information processing apparatus controlling a scanner, a reading instruction and a reading setting made in the scanner is detected by the scanner driver. When the reading instruction is detected, reading to be performed according to the detected reading setting is acquired by an application via an operating system, and the scanner driver is instructed that the scanner executes the reading according to the acquired reading setting, with the application.

A system may include multiple remote kiosk devices each to present a respective kiosk user interface and multiple remote receptionist devices each to present a respective receptionist user interface. The system may perform operations comprising receiving at the receptionist devices live video feeds captured by the multiple kiosk devices and providing the multiple live video feeds to the remote receptionist devices. The remote receptionist devices present the multiple live video feeds in the receptionist user interfaces The system may receive, from a receptionist device, a request to initiate a video call with a remote kiosk device, may initiate a video call between the remote receptionist device and the remote kiosk device, and may cause the user interface of the remote receptionist device to present the video call and the live video feeds simultaneously.

A control method performed by an apparatus that communicates with a device and that includes a display screen includes causing the display screen to display a first screen including a scan object used for scanning and a predetermined object different from the scan object, and causing the display screen to display, as a screen corresponding to the scan object, a second screen including a scan setting item. In addition, the display screen is caused to display, as a screen corresponding to the predetermined object, a third screen that does not include the scan setting item and that includes information for prompting a user to put the apparatus close to the device.

If a printer is not compatible with a printer connect service, a usage status display button is hidden to indicate that the printer is not compatible with the printer connect service. If the printer is compatible with the printer connect service, the usage status display button is in one of three display states, in which the usage status display button is displayed to indicate that the printer is compatible with the printer connect service. The three display states correspond to a case where the user is not registered with the printer connect service, a case where the user is registered with the printer connect service and logged in to the printer connect service, and a case where the user is registered with the printer connect service and not logged in to the printer connect service.

A system may include multiple remote kiosk devices each to present a respective kiosk user interface and multiple remote receptionist devices each to present a respective receptionist user interface. The system may perform operations comprising receiving at the receptionist devices live video feeds captured by the multiple kiosk devices and providing the multiple live video feeds to the remote receptionist devices. The remote receptionist devices present the multiple live video feeds in the receptionist user interfaces The system may receive, from a receptionist device, a request to initiate a video call with a remote kiosk device, may initiate a video call between the remote receptionist device and the remote kiosk device, and may cause the user interface of the remote receptionist device to present the video call and the live video feeds simultaneously.

A control method performed by an apparatus that communicates with a device and that includes a display screen includes causing the display screen to display a first screen including a scan object used for scanning and a predetermined object different from the scan object, and causing the display screen to display, as a screen corresponding to the scan object, a second screen including a scan setting item. In addition, the display screen is caused to display, as a screen corresponding to the predetermined object, a third screen that does not include the scan setting item and that includes information for prompting a user to put the apparatus close to the device.