Patent ID: 8243306
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of installing an image processing apparatus control program, the method being executed by a host apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and a driver server comprising: a transfer step in which the host apparatus receives transfer of a printer address indicating a location of the image processing apparatus on a network, apparatus identifying information identifying the image processing apparatus, a server address of the driver server storing an image processing apparatus control program for control of image processing in the image processing apparatus, and a communication program for communicating with the driver server through the network from the image processing apparatus, the host apparatus being operable to output at least image data and image processing commands to the image processing apparatus through the network; an access step in which the host apparatus runs the communication program and accesses the driver server through the network according to the server address; a selection step in which the host apparatus selects, from within the driver server, the image processing apparatus control program of the image processing apparatus identified by the apparatus identifying information; a download step in which the host apparatus downloads the image processing apparatus control program from the driver server; an installation step in which the host apparatus installs the image processing apparatus control program in the host apparatus; and a setting step in which the host apparatus sets the printer address as the location on the network of the image processing apparatus controlled by the image processing apparatus control program, wherein the transfer step comprises: