Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus having an operating system unit,

• wherein the operating system unit comprises:
• a list-up unit configured to list up at least one registered device driver unit which has been registered in the operating system unit when the device driver unit is installed;
• a discriminating unit configured to discriminate whether or not a registered device driver unit of a device type name and a plug and play ID which coincide with a device type name and a plug and play ID of the device driver unit exists among the at least one registered device driver unit listed up by the list-up unit;
• and
• an associating for unit configured to, if it is discriminated by the discriminating unit that the registered device driver unit of the device type name and the plug and play ID which coincide with the device type name and the plug and play ID of the device driver unit exists among the at least one registered device driver unit listed up by the list-up unit, further associate identification information of the device driver unit with a registered device stage associated with the registered device driver unit.

An information processing method carried out in an information processing apparatus having a device driver unit and an operating system unit, comprising:

• by the device driver unit, listing up the at least one registered device driver unit which has been registered in the operating system unit when the device driver unit is installed;
• by the device driver unit, discriminating whether or not a registered device driver unit of a port which coincides with a port of the device driver unit exists among the at least one registered device driver unit listed up in the list-up step;
• by the device driver unit, storing a driver type and a driver name of the registered device driver unit into a storage device if it is determined in the discriminating step that the registered device driver unit of the port which coincides with the port of the device driver unit exists among the at least one registered device driver unit listed up in the list-up step;
• by the operating system unit, listing up tasks to be displayed on a device detailed page activated from a custom object which shows a device of the device driver unit associated with a device stage, each of the tasks showing a link to functions that are provided by the device shown by the custom object;
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• by the operating system unit, displaying the tasks showing the link to the functions that are provided by the device shown by the custom object on the device detailed page in the case where a device of a type that coincides with the driver type stored in the storage device in the storing step exists among the devices regarding the tasks listed up in the task list-up step.

An information processing method carried out in an information processing apparatus having an operating system unit,

• by the operating system unit, listing up at least one registered device driver unit which has been registered in the operating system unit when the device driver unit is installed;
• by the operating system unit, discriminating whether or not a registered device driver unit of a device type name and a plug and play ID which coincide with a device type name and a plug and play ID of the device driver unit exists among the at least one registered device driver unit listed up in the list-up step;
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• by the operating system unit, if it is discriminated in the discriminating step that the registered device driver unit of the device type name and the plug and play ID which coincide with the device type name and the plug and play ID of the device driver unit exists among the at least one registered device driver unit listed up in the list-up step, further associating identification information of the device driver unit with a registered device stage associated with the registered device driver unit.