Information processing apparatus, server apparatus, control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Kikuchi
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Abstract
A print expansion application is downloaded by using, as a key, a printer Hardware Identifier (HWID) acquired when a printer driver to be commonly used in an operating system (OS) is installed, and the print expansion application is associated with the printer driver.
Claims11
An information processing apparatus communicable with a server apparatus and an image forming apparatus, a printer driver being installable in the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a reception unit configured to receive identification information about the image forming apparatus;
- a transmission unit configured to transmit the identification information about the image forming apparatus received by the reception unit to the server apparatus;
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- an execution unit configured to execute processing of associating an expansion application transmitted from the server apparatus with the printer driver, the expansion application corresponding to the identification information about the image forming apparatus transmitted by the transmission unit.
A control method for an information processing apparatus communicable with a server apparatus and an image forming apparatus, a printer driver being installable in the information processing apparatus, the method causing a computer to perform:
- receiving identification information about the image forming apparatus;
- transmitting the identification information about the image forming apparatus received in the receiving to the server apparatus;
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- executing processing of associating an expansion application transmitted from the server apparatus with the printer driver, the expansion application corresponding to the identification information about the image forming apparatus transmitted in the transmitting.
A server apparatus communicable with an information processing apparatus, the server apparatus comprising:
- a reception unit configured to receive identification information about an image forming apparatus from the information processing apparatus;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire an expansion application applicable to the image forming apparatus;
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- a transmission unit configured to transmit the expansion application acquired by the acquisition unit to the information processing apparatus.
A control method for a server apparatus communicable with an information processing apparatus, the method causing a computer to perform:
- receiving identification information about an image forming apparatus from the information processing apparatus;
- acquiring an expansion application applicable to the image forming apparatus;
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- transmitting the expansion application acquired in the acquiring to the information processing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.