Patent ID: 7743120

Claim:
An information processing method executed in a server apparatus which distributes across a network a printer driver program for controlling a printing device to a client apparatus for managing the printing device, said method comprising: a designation step of designating range information for searching for a printing device connected to the network; a search step of searching for the printing device which is controlled by installing the printer driver program to the client apparatus, wherein the search step sends a search request to the printing device and receives from the printing device a response including an IP address; a determination step of determining, in accordance with the response including the IP address, whether or not the printing device searched in the search step has the IP address within the range information designated in the designation step; and a distribution step of distributing a printer driver program, from the server apparatus to the client apparatus, for managing the printing device determined in the determination step as the printing device having the IP address within the range information designated in the designation step.