Patent ID: 7693968
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: a server apparatus; at least one client apparatus; at least one printer available to said at least one client apparatus; and a network interconnecting said server apparatus, said at least one client apparatus, and said at least one printer, wherein said server apparatus comprises: a storage device that stores at least one driver program corresponding to said at least one printer; an installation control device that achieves push installation of said at least one printer driver, said installation control device comprising an acquisition device, a management device, a coupling device, and an installation processing device, wherein said acquisition device automatically acquires apparatus configuration information on said at least one printer from said at least one printer via said network without user input, wherein said management device manages the acquired apparatus configuration information on said at least one printer such that the driver program corresponding to said at least one printer is associated therewith, wherein said coupling device couples the driver program corresponding to said at least one printer to additional filter conditions, which are used for generating a filter adapted thereto, when capability of said at least one printer is limited by an input operation and the additional filter conditions of one user are different from those of another user, and wherein said installation processing device is responsive to the additional filter conditions, for controlling a process for installing the driver program together with the additional filter conditions on said at least one printer coupled thereto, in said at least one client apparatus without waiting for an installation request to be received from said at least one client apparatus via the network; and a filtering device that generates the filter based on the additional filter conditions when the capability of said at least one printer is limited by the input operation and filters an apparatus capability information for limiting the capability of the at least one printer relating to each of said at least one client apparatus using the additional filter conditions, the apparatus capability information being subjected to different filtering processing for each user of said at least one client apparatus with respect to the at least one printer, wherein the filtering device acquires the apparatus capability information delivered on the network, modifies the apparatus capability information corresponding to a setting provided by the filter, and displays the setting on a graphical user interface of said at least one client apparatus.