Patent ID: 9164714
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to execute an operating system (OS) providing a first user interface environment appropriate for a touch panel and a second UI environment different from the first UI environment and a device driver configured to control an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to set, in advance, information to be set via a pop-up dialog in the second UI environment as a function of the device driver, before a request to the image forming apparatus is executed; a control unit configured to pop up the dialog in the second UI environment as a function of the device driver according to execution of the request to the image forming apparatus; and an execution unit configured to execute processing regarding the request by using the information set by the setting unit if an operation by a user on the pop-up dialog, according to execution of the request by an application operating in the first UI environment, in the second UI environment is not performed for a predetermined period of time, wherein, according to the pop-up dialog in the second UI environment, a toast prompting the user to change the first UI environment to the second UI environment is displayed for a predetermined period of time in the first UI environment, as a function of the OS, and wherein the predetermined period of time is longer than a display time for the toast, which is displayed as a function of the OS.