Patent ID: 8610930

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of printing apparatuses; a display unit configured to display a message notifying a user to manipulate a cover of a printing apparatus so as to be changed into a second cover state from a first cover state before the printing apparatus is registered to the information processing apparatus; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a cover state before the display unit displays the message from each of the plurality of printing apparatuses detected by the detection unit; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a cover state after the display unit has displayed the message from each of the plurality of printing apparatuses detected by the detection unit; and a specification unit configured to specify a printing apparatus for which the first acquisition unit has acquired the first cover state and the second acquisition unit has acquired the second cover state from among the plurality of printing apparatuses detected by the detection unit, each cover state being either an open state or a closed state.