Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsukasa Aiba

Hisashi Kato

Toru Niki

An information processing apparatus has a storage device that stores a device driver which incorporates access information regarding access to the server apparatus and a property display screen with instruction items for instructing a device driver request; a notification unit that, based on an instruction to the instruction items on the property display screen, refers to the access information and notifies the access information to an application that is capable of processing page information, in order to obtain driver update page information from the server apparatus; and an updating control unit that, based on an instruction to an update instruction section to request automatic update that is provided on a driver update page created based on the driver update page information obtained, controls a process to obtain device driver update information sent from the server apparatus and update the device driver stored in the storage device.

Device driver updating method and program, information processing apparatus and server apparatus using the same, and storage for storing device driver updating program

An information processing apparatus has a storage device that stores a device which incorporates access information regarding access to the server apparatus and a property display screen with instruction items for instructing a device driver request; a notification unit that, based on an instruction to the instruction items on the property display screen, refers to the access information and notifies the access information to an application that is capable of processing page information, in order to obtain driver update page information from the server apparatus; and an updating control unit that, based on an instruction to an update instruction section to request automatic update that is provided on a driver update page created based on the driver update page information obtained, controls a process to obtain device driver update information sent from the server apparatus and update the device driver stored in the storage device.

A push installation system including a server and clients connected via a network, the server installing a device driver on one or more clients via the network, is provided. The server includes an acquisition unit for acquiring, via the network, an operating state of each of the clients connected to the network; a determination unit for determining whether or not each of the clients is in a ready-for-installation state, in which installation can be performed, based on the operating state of each of the clients acquired by the acquisition unit; and an installation unit for performing processing, via the network, for installing or updating the device driver on at least one client that is determined to be in the ready-for-installation state.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and control program

A device driver for use in a computer system includes process steps to detect data corresponding to at least one system resource of the computer system, to determine a default operational mode from a plurality of operational modes of a device based on the data corresponding to at least one system resource, and to provide a user interface for selecting an operational mode from the plurality of operational modes.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tsukasa Aiba