Patent ID: 7805722

Claim:
A tangible software install program product for installing a software program recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium into a computer that is separate from the computer-readable recording medium, the program product causing the computer to execute: acquiring version information of an operating system used with the computer; acquiring, from the recording medium, compatible operating system information of the software program stored in the recording medium; determining whether or not the operating system is a compatible operating system corresponding to the compatible operating system information based on the compatible operating system information and the version information; if determined that the operating system is a compatible operating system, then determining that the software program can be installed in the computer; if determined, from the compatible operating system information acquired from the recording medium, that the operating system is not a compatible operating system, then: acquiring location information stored in the recording medium; accessing a database server on a network based on the location information; acquiring additional compatible operating system information stored in the database server; and determining whether or not the software program stored in the recording medium can be installed in the computer based on the additional compatible operating system information; and installing the software program stored in the recording medium into the computer if determined that the software program can be installed in the computer.