Installation of device software and formulation of unique identification information based on time information

• US 7,287,253 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2003
• Issued: 10/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Takagi, Yoshihiro, Yamamura, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): INGBERG, TODD D
• Application Number:
  US10/626,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20040210680A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: 717/176, 717/177, 717/178, 717/121, 719/321, 719/327, 719322-326
• US Class Current: 717/176
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers

Abstract

An information processing apparatus installs a first control program corresponding to a first peripheral device and a second control program for controlling a second peripheral device, the first and second control programs including a common module. The information processing apparatus has deciding means for deciding identification information of the common module so that the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of the first control program and the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of the second control program are made different.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus that executes installation of a first control program corresponding to a first peripheral device and a second control program for controlling a second peripheral device, the first and second control programs including a common module, said apparatus comprising:

deciding means for deciding identification information of the common module so that the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of said first control program and the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of said second control program are made different, wherein, in response to execution of installation, said deciding means decides the identification information of said common modules on the basis of identification information havint uniqueness which is formed as unique identification information upon said installation, and wherein said identification information having the uniqueness is formed on the basis of time information showing time when the installation is executed; and

control means for controlling a memory to store the common module with the identification information decided by said decidinig means.

2. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus that executes installation of a first control program corresponding to a first peripheral device and a second control program for controlling a second peripheral device, the first and second control programs including a common module, said method comprising:

a deciding step of deciding identification information of the common module so that the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of said first control program and the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of said second control program are made different, wherein in response to execution of installation, said deciding step decides the identification information of said common modules on the basis of identification information having uniqueness which is formed as unique identification information upon said installation, and wherein said identification information having the uniqueness is formed on the basis of time information showing time when the installation is executed; and

a control step of controlling a memory to store the common module with the identification information decided in said deciding step.

3. A computer-readable memory medium which stores a control program for controlling an information processing apparatus that executes installation of a first control program corresponding to a first peripheral device and a second control program for controlling a second peripheral device, the first and second control programs including a common module,

wherein said control program comprises a deciding step of deciding identification information of the common module so that the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of said first control program and the identification information of the common module which operates as a part of said second control program are made different, wherein, in response to execution of installation, said deciding step decides the identification information of said common modules on the basis of identification information having uniqueness which is formed as unique identification information upon said installation, and wherein said identification information having the uniqueness is formed on the basis of time information showing time when the installation is executed;

and

a control step of controlling a memory to store the common module with the identification information decided in said deciding step.