Patent ID: 8395787
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus having a customizing application that forms an installation set including a first driver program to be customized and an installer, the first driver program managing a private area and a public area, comprising: a specifying unit adapted to specify, under control of the customizing application, expansion print setting, including a content of the expansion print setting and information specifying the expansion print setting, from print settings set in a private area of a second driver program, which is different from the first driver program and which manages the private area and a public area, wherein the expansion print setting is defined by a user; an obtaining unit adapted to obtain the expansion print setting specified by said specifying unit, by causing the customizing application to call a predetermined application programming interface for obtaining print setting stored in the private area which is not managed by the customizing application but managed by the second driver program; and a holding unit adapted to hold, under control of the customizing application, the expansion print setting obtained by said obtaining unit in the installation set, wherein the installer installs the first driver program to another information processing apparatus such that the first driver program recognizes the expansion print setting held in the installation set by said holding unit, and wherein said specifying unit specifies favorite print setting, as expansion print setting, which is different from default print setting set in the second driver program and which has been registered after the installation of the second driver program.