Patent ID: 8427659
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a printing unit; a memory that stores a first descriptor indicating that the information processing apparatus operates as a storage device, a second descriptor indicating that the information processing apparatus operates as a printer device, and a printer driver which, in a case where the information processing apparatus is operating as the storage device, is information accessible by a host apparatus and is used by the host apparatus in order to control the information processing apparatus as the printer device in accordance with a given standard; a communication unit which, at the start of communication with the host apparatus, transmits the first descriptor to the host apparatus and communicates with the host apparatus in such a manner that the host apparatus is capable of accessing the printer driver; and a changing unit that changes the descriptor that said communication unit transmits to the host apparatus to the second descriptor after the printer driver has been accessed from the host apparatus.