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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoya Kobayakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus having an OS, capable of appropriately executing a process related to a program for executing an administrator authority requiring process. The method comprising: when receiving an operation from a predetermined account in a predetermined OS environment, executing a first process for installing a first program regardless whether the predetermined account is an administrator account or a non-administrator account; when receiving an operation from the predetermined account in an OS environment which is not the predetermined OS environment, executing a second process for activating a third program for installing a second program regardless whether the predetermined account is the administrator account or the non-administrator account; and executing a third process for installing the second program when the third program is activated and execution of an administrator authority requiring process is permitted.