Patent ID: 8848217
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium having computer-readable program codes embodied in the medium for installing a plug-in that adds a function to a printer driver, the program codes when executed causing a computer to execute: storing a file that makes up a plug-in that is to be newly added to the printer driver in a plug-in storage file without changing a file name of the plug-in storage file, wherein a file name of a file making up a main part of the printer driver and the file name of the plug-in storage file storing therein the plug-in adding a function to the main part of the printer driver are described, as file names of files making up the printer driver, in a printer driver configuration information file in advance, the printer driver configuration information file is referred by an operation system to obtain the file names of the files making up the printer driver upon copying the files making up the printer driver to a different information apparatus and installing the printer driver to the different information apparatus, and wherein the plug-in storage file is configured as a dummy plug-in storage file storing therein no file making up a plug-in when no such a plug-in is added to the printer driver.