Electronic apparatus for identifying and utilizing external applications contained on external apparatuses

Abstract

An electronic apparatus for performing an operation by use of an application, which can communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, includes an application registering unit to register one or more applications selected as available applications from applications installed in the plurality of external apparatuses, an application selecting unit to select an application to be utilized from the one or more applications registered by the application registering unit, and a control unit to communicate with an external apparatus having the selected application installed therein to perform the operation by utilizing the selected application installed in the external apparatus.

1 . An electronic apparatus for performing an operation by use of an application, which can communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, comprising:
 an application registering unit to register one or more applications selected as available applications from applications installed in the plurality of external apparatuses;   an application selecting unit to select an application to be utilized from the one or more applications registered by said application registering unit; and   a control unit to communicate with an external apparatus having said selected application installed therein to perform the operation by utilizing said selected application installed in said external apparatus.