INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD

• US 20180217788A1
• Filed: 01/29/2018
• Published: 08/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US15/882,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20180217788A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1225 Software update, e.g. print driver, modules, plug-ins, fonts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1231 Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1232 Transmitting printer device capabilities, e.g. upon request or periodically
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1248 by printer language recognition, e.g. PDL, PCL, PDF
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4413 Plug-and-play [PnP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

An information processing apparatus operable to execute an operating system comprises a processor which is capable of executing the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to, at a time different to the obtainment processing by the operating system and after the installation of the device driver, execute, by using a second time interval which is a time interval longer than a first time interval, a plurality of requests for obtaining the configuration information from a peripheral apparatus using a function for obtaining the configuration information, and wherein obtained information is saved as the configuration information of the peripheral apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus operable to execute an operating system, wherein the operating system is configured to, at a time of an installation of a device driver, perform obtainment processing for executing, by using a first time interval, a plurality of requests for obtaining configuration information from a peripheral apparatus corresponding to the device driver, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory storing instructions; and

a processor which is capable of executing the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to;

at a time different to the obtainment processing by the operating system and after the installation of the device driver, execute, by using a second time interval which is a time interval longer than the first time interval, a plurality of requests for obtaining the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus by using a module having a function for obtaining the configuration information, and

wherein information obtained by using the module, which is not the operating system, is saved as the configuration information of the peripheral apparatus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to determine a type of a port set in the device driver, and

wherein, if the type of the port is determined to be a TCP/IP port, the plurality of requests using the module are executed by using the second time interval.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to, if the type of the port is determined to be a TCP/IP port, request the peripheral apparatus for a WSD (Web Services for Devices) schema that includes the configuration information before executing the plurality of requests using the module, and

wherein, if obtainment of the WSD schema fails, the plurality of requests using the module are executed by using the second time interval.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to obtain the configuration information included in the WSD schema when obtainment of the WSD schema succeeds.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to record an obtainment result for the configuration information, and

record, in accordance with the obtainment result, a first value indicating that a configuration corresponding to the configuration information is not present in the peripheral apparatus, a second value indicating that the configuration is present, and a third value indicating that the configuration information is unobtained.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to present a setting screen for performing a setting of the peripheral apparatus in accordance with the recorded configuration information, and

if a recorded value is the third value, enable a function provided by the corresponding configuration, and configure the setting screen so that the function can be selected.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to, if a recorded value is the third value, obtain the configuration information by executing the plurality of requests.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of requests, which is for obtaining the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus and is made using the second time interval and uses the module having the function for obtaining the configuration information, is started in accordance with a request from an installer of the device driver responding to an installation completion notification of the device driver from the operating system.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to, by using the second time interval, execute, in accordance with completion of the obtainment processing by the operating system, the plurality of requests for obtaining the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus using the module having the function for obtaining the configuration information.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the module having the function for obtaining the configuration information is realized by a related application of the device driver installed on the information processing apparatus.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the peripheral apparatus is a printer, and

the configuration information is option configuration information indicating a configuration of an option unit of the printer.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program for making a computer execute a method for an information processing apparatus operable to execute an operating system configured to, at a time of an installation of a device driver to the information processing apparatus, perform obtainment processing for executing, by using a first time interval, a plurality of requests for obtaining configuration information from a peripheral apparatus corresponding to the device driver, the method comprising:

at a time different to the obtainment processing by the operating system and after the installation of the device driver, execute, by using a second time interval which is a time interval longer than the first time interval, a plurality of requests for obtaining the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus by using a module having a function for obtaining the configuration information, and

wherein information obtained by using the module, which is not the operating system, is saved as the configuration information of the peripheral apparatus.

13. The medium according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

determining whether a type of a port on which the device driver is set, and

wherein the method executes the plurality of requests by using at least the second time interval if the type of the port is determined to be a TCP/IP port.

14. The medium according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

recording an obtainment result of the configuration information,

wherein, in the recording, in accordance with the obtainment result, a first value indicating that a configuration corresponding to the configuration information is not present in the peripheral apparatus, a second value indicating that the configuration is present, and a third value indicating that the configuration information is unobtained are recorded.

15. The medium according to claim 14, wherein the method further comprises:

configuring so that, when presenting a setting screen for performing a setting of the peripheral apparatus, if the value recorded in the recording is the third value, a function provided by a corresponding configuration is enabled, and selection of the function is enabled.

16. The medium according to claim 12, wherein

the plurality of requests for obtaining the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus made using the second time interval using the module having the function for obtaining the configuration information is started in response to an installation completion notification of the device driver from the operating system.

17. The medium according to claim 12, wherein

in the obtaining, the plurality of requests for obtaining the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus by using the second time interval are executed, by using the module having the function for obtaining the configuration information, in response to completion of the obtainment processing by the operating system.

18. A method of an information processing apparatus operable to execute an operating system, wherein the operating system is configured to, at a time of an installation of a device driver, performs obtainment processing for executing a plurality of requests by a first time interval in order to obtain configuration information from a peripheral apparatus corresponding to the device driver, the method comprising:

at a time different to the obtainment processing by the operating system and after the installation of the device driver, executing a plurality of requests by using a second time interval which is a time interval longer than the first time interval in order to obtain the configuration information from the peripheral apparatus by using a module having a function for obtaining the configuration information, and

wherein information obtained by using the module, which is not the operating system, is saved as the configuration information of the peripheral apparatus.