Electronic device, information processing method, and storage medium

An information processing method performed by an electronic device, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

• requesting a user to specify, for each of a plurality of target programs in the electronic device, a reception setting indicating whether to allow reception of an additional program to be applied to each of the plurality of target programs and storing the reception setting as control information for the plurality of target programs in a control information storing unit, the additional program inserting a process interrupt in a process of at least one of the target programs;
• determining whether to allow reception of the additional program based on the control information for the plurality of target programs and a transmission request for the additional program;
• generating a reception refusal report upon determination that reception of the additional program is not allowed;
• continually monitoring for the transmission request for the additional program;
• receiving or refusing to receive the additional program according to the determination result in the determining step;
• and
• transmitting, when the reception refusal report is generated, the reception refusal report to a management server.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor in an electronic device, causes the processor to perform an information processing method, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

• requesting a user to specify, for each of a plurality of target programs in the electronic device, a reception setting indicating whether to allow reception of a an additional program to be applied to each of the plurality of target programs and storing the reception setting as control information for the plurality of target programs in a control information storing unit, the additional program inserting a process interrupt in a process of at least one of the target programs;
• determining whether to allow reception of the additional program based on the control information for the plurality of target programs and a transmission request for the additional program;
• generating a reception refusal report upon determination that reception of the additional program is not allowed;
• continually monitoring for the transmission request for the additional program;
• receiving or refusing to receive the additional program according to the determination result in the determining step;
• and
• transmitting, when the reception refusal report is generated, the reception refusal report to a management server.