Patent ID: 7260787

Claim:
An information processing apparatus that activates an application for displaying on a display screen information of a peripheral device that communicates with the information processing apparatus via a communication link, comprising: storage means for storing information of the peripheral device that communicates via the communication link in a resident memory; obtaining means for obtaining status information or alert information of the peripheral device through the communication link in response to an instruction to invoke the application; first display control means for displaying on the display screen the information of the peripheral device that communicates via the communication link according to the information stored in the storage means prior to invoking the application in response to the instruction to invoke the application and before the obtaining means completes obtaining the status information or the alert information of the peripheral device from the peripheral device via the communication link; and second display control means for updating a content of the information displayed by the first display control means according to the status information or the alert information of the peripheral device obtained by the obtaining means in response to completion of a process for obtaining at least one of the status information and the alert information of the peripheral device from the peripheral device via the communication link.