Patent ID: 8860961

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a plurality of labels, each of the plurality of labels is associated with a name for identifying a device and a respective icon of a plurality of icons; a plurality of pieces of setting information which are associated with respective labels of the plurality of labels, and each piece of setting information of the plurality of pieces of setting information including a setting item corresponding to an operation of the device and setting content corresponding to the setting item; an identification section that, in response to a request received from the device when the operation is executed by the device, acquires information for identifying one of the plurality of labels, and identifies the one of the plurality of labels from the information; and an application section that applies setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels identified by the identification section based on the name for identifying the device associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the operation executed by the device and transmits a device driver to apply the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the device, and wherein the operation of the device comprises using an icon from a plurality of icons to generate a job based on the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels and transmitting the job to be performed at a second device from the device to the second device via the information processing apparatus.