Patent ID: 8862873

Claim:
A shortcut management device comprising: a storage unit configured to register a shortcut to an application that is governed by a license; an invalidation detecting unit configured to detect that the license is invalidated; a determination unit configured to determine whether the shortcut remains executable even though a function of the application is eliminated due to the invalidation of the license detected by the invalidation detecting unit; a shortcut modification unit configured, in response to the determination unit determining that the shortcut remains executable, to modify the shortcut registered in the storage unit to eliminate the function from the shortcut while maintaining the executability of the shortcut; a display unit configured, if the shortcut modification unit modifies the shortcut registered in the storage unit, to provide user-notice indicating partial function unavailability of the modified shortcut; and an instruction-receiving unit configured, when the shortcut displaying unit provides the user-notice, to receive a user-instruction to execute the modified shortcut.