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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2020
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Po Chun Chew, Nagoya, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
In an information processing apparatus, a processor firstly acquires all device port names registered in a memory, and instructs the operating system to register new device information indicating a new device. The processor secondly acquires, in response to determining that the operating system completes registering the new device information, all device port names including the new device port name associated with the new device information from the memory. The processor identifies the new device port name which is included in the secondly acquired device port names but excluded from the firstly acquired device port names by comparing the firstly acquired device port names with the secondly acquired device port names, and registers in the operating system the new device port name and the software to be correlated with each other so that the software can communicate with the new device through the new device port.