Information processing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable medium

A method of controlling an information processing apparatus which is connected to a peripheral device and includes a peripheral device management unit for managing the peripheral device, the information processing apparatus having control information serving as information which defines in advance information for controlling a display representing a function for managing the peripheral device, and link information indicating a link destination where each function is provided, and which has an electronic signature to confirm whether falsification has been done, the method comprising:

• a request reception step of receiving a request from the peripheral device management unit;
• a link management step of managing link information which is different from the link information contained in the control information and is executed in accordance with a request received in the request reception step;
• and
• an execution step of determining a link destination based on the request received in the request reception step using the link information contained in the control information or the different link information managed in the link management step, and executing link processing to the determined link destination.

A computer-readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as

• storage unit configured to store control information serving as information which defines in advance information for controlling a display representing a function for managing a peripheral device, and link information indicating a link destination where each function is provided, and which has an electronic signature to confirm whether falsification has been done,
• request reception unit configured to receive a request from a peripheral device management unit,
• link management unit configured to manage link information which is different from the link information contained in the control information and is executed in accordance with a request received by said request reception unit, and
• execution unit configured to determine a link destination based on the request received by said request reception unit using the link information contained in the control information or the different link information managed by said link management unit, and executing link processing to the determined link destination.