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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takeyuki Nagashima, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A management device manages management information including a type and a version of a driver installed on each client device and an output destination, specifies client devices on which a driver corresponding in type to the peripheral device has been installed with reference to the management information when the driver to be utilized in the client devices is changed in accordance with the change in information of the peripheral device, extracts a client device in which the peripheral device is set as the output destination from among the specified client devices with reference to the management information, and transmits an instruction for installing a driver to be changed to the extracted client device.