Patent ID: 9134933
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with each of plural printing apparatuses, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an electronic mail with a file attached thereto, the electronic mail having at least one of respective identifiers of the plural printing apparatuses entered therein; a storage unit configured to store a corresponding table in which the identifiers of the plural printing apparatuses are included, each of the identifiers of the plural printing apparatuses in the corresponding table being usable for identifying each of printer drivers for the plural printing apparatuses; an identifying unit configured to, based on both the corresponding table stored in the storage unit and the identifier entered in the received electronic mail, identify a printer driver to be used; a generation unit configured to generate print data from a file attached to the received electronic mail using the printer driver identified by the identifying unit; a sending unit configured to send the print data generated by the generation unit to the printing apparatus identified based on the identifier entered in the received electronic mail; and an additional unit configured to obtain an identifier of a new printing apparatus different from the plural printing apparatuses and add the obtained identifier to the corresponding table for enabling the new printing apparatus to print a file attached to an electronic mail.