Information processing method and information processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshihiro Takagi
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Abstract
As a preferred embodiment, an information processing method of distributing across a network a control program for controlling a network device to a client apparatus for managing the network device, comprising, a designation step of designating range information for searching for a network device connected to the network, and a search step of searching for the network device corresponding to the designated range information on the basis of the designated range information and a distribution step of distributing a control program to the client apparatus for managing the network device within the range searched by the processing in the search step is disclosed.
Claims7
An information processing method executed in a server apparatus which distributes across a network a printer driver program for controlling a printing device to a client apparatus for managing the printing device, said method comprising:
- a designation step of designating range information for searching for a printing device connected to the network;
- a search step of searching for the printing device which is controlled by installing the printer driver program to the client apparatus, wherein the search step sends a search request to the printing device and receives from the printing device a response including an IP address;
- a determination step of determining, in accordance with the response including the IP address, whether or not the printing device searched in the search step has the IP address within the range information designated in the designation step;
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- a distribution step of distributing a printer driver program, from the server apparatus to the client apparatus, for managing the printing device determined in the determination step as the printing device having the IP address within the range information designated in the designation step.
A server apparatus for distributing across a network a printer driver program for controlling a printing device to a client apparatus for managing the printing device, said server apparatus comprising:
- designating means for designating range information for searching for a printing device connected to the network;
- searching means for searching for the printing device which is controlled by installing the printer driver program to the client apparatus, wherein the searching means sends a search request to the printing device and receives from the printing device a response including an IP address;
- determination means for determining, in accordance with the response including the IP address, whether or not the printing device searched by said searching means has the IP address within the range information designated by said designating means;
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- distributing means for distributing a printer driver program, from said server apparatus to the client apparatus, for managing the printing device determined by said determination means as the printing device having the IP address within the range information designated by said designating means.
A program which is stored in a computer-readable storage medium and causes a server apparatus to execute an information processing method for distributing across a network a printer driver program for controlling a printing device to a client apparatus for managing the printing device, said method comprising:
- a designation step of designating range information for searching for a printing device connected to the network;
- a search step of searching for the printing device which is controlled by installing the printer driver program to the client apparatus, wherein the search step sends a search request to the printing device and receives from the printing device a response including an IP address;
- a determination step of determining, in accordance with the response including the IP address, whether or not the printing device searched in the search step has the IP address within the range information designated in the designation step;
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- a distribution module for distributing a printer driver program, from the server apparatus to the client apparatus, for managing the printing device determined in the determination step as the printing device having the IP address within the range information designated in the designation step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.