Patent ID: 8922809

Claim:
A method of providing compatible function information of a host apparatus connected to at least one image forming apparatus, the host apparatus being installed with an integrated administration program to control at least one function of the image forming apparatus, the method comprising: executing the integrated administration program of the host apparatus; receiving function information about one of the image forming apparatus; storing the received function information; if the function of the image forming apparatus corresponds to the stored function information on the image forming apparatus, determining if the corresponding function is compatible with the integrated administration program or a sub application program within the integrated administration program; and separately displaying, on a display of the host apparatus, the integrated administration program or the sub application program corresponding to a result of the determining, wherein the separately displaying the integrated administration program and the sub application program comprises enabling or disabling an icon of the sub application program, displayed on the host apparatus, which corresponds to the at least one function of the image forming apparatus.