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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2009
Takahiro Imamichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahiro Imamichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an information processing apparatus provided with a software environment in which a function of the information processing apparatus is added and deleted by a plug-in and having a storage unit which stores, in a prescribed storage region, information that is composed of one or more attribute data and the function uses. The apparatus includes an information generation unit that has registration information in which a software component for constructing/deleting the attribute data of the information that the function uses is installed and registered in the information processing apparatus in accordance with the plug-in, specifies the software component used when the information is generated based on the registration information, and executes the specified software component to generate the information that the function uses; and an information management unit that instructs the information generation unit to generate the information designated in accordance with a request for generating the information.