Patent ID: 9244646
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a non-transitory memory device; a processor; a holding unit configured to hold device information corresponding to printing apparatuses already connected to the information processing apparatus, and information of hot folders corresponding to the already-connected printing apparatuses; a determination unit configured to determine a printing apparatus similar to a printing apparatus newly connected to the information processing apparatus among the already-connected printing apparatuses by comparing device information of the newly-connected printing apparatus with the device information of the already-connected printing apparatuses; and a generation unit configured to generate a hot folder corresponding to the newly-connected printing apparatus by copying information of a hot folder corresponding to the printing apparatus determined by said determination unit, wherein the holding unit is configured to delete the information of a hot folder corresponding to the printing apparatus for which a printer driver has been deleted upon the printer driver corresponding to the printing apparatus being uninstalled from the information processing apparatus, and wherein the holding unit, the determination unit, and the generation unit are implemented by the processor executing at least one program recorded on the non-transitory memory device.