A software widget running on a user device may be designed to operate in a locked or an unlocked mode. In unlocked mode, the user has full interactivity with the widget. In locked mode, however, at least some of the interactivity with the widget is restricted, despite the fact that the widget still operates normally otherwise while in the locked mode. While in locked mode, user input may be compared against a predefined unlocking sequence to determine if the widget should be unlocked.

A master server includes a mapping management unit that returns, with respect to an address inquiry request for a site server to be in cooperation with a PC, the address inquiry request being sent from the PC, an IP address of the site server to be in cooperation with the PC that sent the address inquiry request. The site server includes an authentication processing unit that authenticates the user in response to an authentication request for the user from the PC, and returns an authentication result to the PC, a permission information providing unit that, when the authentication processing unit succeeds in authentication, obtains the permission information corresponding to the user from the second memory, and provides the permission information to the PC that sent the authentication request, and a second spooler that spools job data from the PC, and outputs the job data to the image forming apparatus.

A display control apparatus enables a user to easily recognize that a selectable item is present in addition to a displayed item and to recognize without being confused that a target item has been touched. The apparatus is capable of displaying an item group including a plurality of items which are a part of all items, when a touch is detected on any item in the item group displayed on the display unit, displaying the touched item in a selected state, and if release of the touch is detected, and if the selected item is an end item among the displayed group of items but is not an end item among all the items, moving the displayed item among all the items in a direction for displaying an item that is not being displayed in the direction of an end based on the release of the touch.

An information processing apparatus extracts at least one store from a plurality of stores in accordance with an order in which degrees of safety for a target vehicle are ordered as starting from higher degrees of safety, by using information which indicates the degree of safety relevant to situations to be provided if a user visits the store and the user leaves the store by using the vehicle with respect to each of the plurality of stores belonging to a predetermined category; and provides, to the user who gets on the target vehicle, information which prompts the user to visit the at least one store.

A technique by which a user such as an administrator can appropriately manage activation and stoppage of services that enables performance from an external apparatus of setting for connecting an information processing apparatus to a particular network is provided. A printer (information processing apparatus) activates a wireless LAN setting service in a state in which a wireless network I/F is caused to operate in an access point mode. The printer, via the wireless network I/F, receives network setting information transmitted from the mobile terminal for setting using the wireless LAN setting service. When the network setting information is received, the printer stops the wireless LAN setting service.

An information processing terminal acquires a plurality of object IDs identifying respective ones of a plurality of display objects. Each of the plurality of display objects is previously with a corresponding standard operation. The terminal acquires a plurality of operation IDs identifying respective ones of the plurality of operations, and displays a first screen to prompt a user to select an operation ID to be correlated to one of the plurality of object IDs. The terminal receives a first input to select an operation ID to be correlated to an object ID via the user interface after the first screen is displayed on the terminal display. The terminal generates instruction data and custom operation data defining a custom operation concerning an operation identified by the selected operation ID. The instruction data is information used for execution of the custom operation defined.

A scanning system includes: a configurator configured to make a first setting corresponding to an image captured by a pre-scan the setting of a process accompanying scanning based on learning results acquired by machine learning using training data related to a setting of the process accompanying scanning that is applied to a scanned image; and an executor that executes the process accompanying scanning based on the first setting.

A display control apparatus transmits change information for changing display provided by a predetermined device included in data acquired by the display control apparatus to the predetermined device. In response to a predetermined response to the transmission of the change information, the display control apparatus displays, on its own display device, a predetermined screen corresponding to display provided by the predetermined device changed by the change information.

A control method for an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising: receiving, from a first external apparatus which belongs to a different subnet of a network than the subnet of the information processing apparatus, specific information for discovering the first external apparatus using a first communication unit; accepting an instruction from a user for searching for external apparatuses; discovering, in response to accepting the instruction and receiving the specific information before accepting the instruction, one or a plurality of external apparatuses by using the specific information, wherein the discovered external apparatuses includes the first external apparatus; displaying a list of information related to the discovered external apparatus(es); and communicating, using a second communication unit, with a selected external apparatus that a user has selected from the list.

An information processing apparatus causes a display to display, based on a plurality of page data included in data of a book and print setting information, a setting screen including sheet preview images indicating print results of sheets forming the book and an interface for accepting selection of the sheet, and identifies the sheet to be printed by accepting, from a user, selection of the sheet via the interface in the setting screen.