Patent ID: 7506142
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A device driver customizing method that is performed when a second driver is installed in an information processing device in which one or more first drivers each for controlling an image processing device have been already installed, the second driver being different from any of the first drivers, and the driver customizing method comprising: a searching step of comparing items included in first configuration data of any of the first drivers, which have been already configured by a user, with items included in second configuration data of the second driver, which are to be newly configured by the user, and thereby searching the first configuration data for an item corresponding to one of the items included in the second configuration data; and a configuration step of configuring the one of the items included in the second configuration data to have a same value as a value given to the corresponding item, if the corresponding item has been found by the searching step wherein if an address of the image processing device controlled by said any of the first drivers is the same as an address of an image processing device controlled by the second driver, the searching step searches the first configuration data of a first driver, among said one or more first drivers, which is for controlling the image processing device having the same address.