Information processing apparatus control method for external device having both a wire interface and a wireless interface settings

• US 7,290,067 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2004
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Atsushi, Fukunaga, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): PEYTON, TAMMARA R
• Application Number:
  US10/869,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20050005042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,231 Days
• Field of Search: 710 8- 10, 710/62, 710/72, 358/1.15, 340/2.1, 340/310.16
• US Class Current: 710/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/3814 Wireless link with a computer system port
• 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 which makes it easier to carry out setting of a wireless interface necessary for enabling a device or apparatus to be used via the wireless interface, using a wire interface. An information processing apparatus carries out first communication setting so as to enable an apparatus or device to be controlled via a wire interface, communicates with the apparatus or device via the wire interface after the first communication setting to carry out second communication setting for enabling communication with the apparatus or device via a wireless interface. This simplifies the communication setting for enabling communication with the apparatus or device via the wireless interface.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus communicable with at least one external device or external apparatus having a wire interface and a wireless interface, comprising:

a first setting-executing device that executes a first setting for enabling the information processing apparatus to control the external device or external apparatus via the wire interface;

a second setting-executing device that communicates with the external device or external apparatus via the wire interface after execution of the first setting, to execute a second setting for enabling the information processing apparatus to communicate with the external device or external apparatus via the wireless interface; and

a prompting device that prompts a user to confirm whether the second setting is to be executed after execution of the first setting, and wherein said second setting-executing device is responsive to confirmation by the user that the second setting is to be executed, for starting the second setting.

2. A computer-readable medium storing a computer program for controlling an information processing apparatus communicable with at least one external device or external apparatus having a wire interface and a wireless interface, comprising:

a first setting-executing module for executing a first setting for enabling the information processing apparatus to control the external device or external apparatus via the wire interface;

a second communication setting-executing module for communicating with the external device or external apparatus via the wire interface after execution of the first setting, to execute a second setting for enabling the information processing apparatus to communicate with the external device or external apparatus via the wireless interface; and

a prompting module for prompting a user to confirm whether the second setting is to be executed after execution of the first setting, and wherein said second setting-executing module is responsive to confirmation by the user that the second setting is to be executed, for starting the second setting.

3. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus communicable with at least one external device or external apparatus having a wire interface and a wireless interface, the method comprising the steps of:

executing a first communication setting for enabling the information processing apparatus to control the external device or external apparatus via the wire interface;

communicating with the external device or external apparatus via the wire interface after execution of the first communication setting, to execute a second communication setting for enabling the information processing apparatus to communicate with the external device or external apparatus via the wireless interface; and

prompting a user to confirm whether the second setting is to be executed after execution of the first setting, and wherein the second setting is executed in response to confirmation by the user that the second setting is to be executed.