Patent ID: 7529920

Claim:
An information processing apparatus capable of executing plug and play processing for starting up one installation processing operation upon acquiring one piece of device identification information, the information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire one piece of device identification information including printer identification information and facsimile identification information corresponding to each of a plurality of logical communication interfaces in response to connection of a peripheral device; and an installation control unit configured to control execution of installation of a printer device driver corresponding to one piece of the plurality of logical communication interfaces by using the printer identification information included in the one piece of device identification information and control execution of installation of a facsimile device driver corresponding to one of the plurality of logical communication interfaces by using the facsimile identification information included in the one piece of device identification information when the acquisition unit acquires the one piece of device identification information from the peripheral device and the installation is executed by using the one piece of device identification information including the printer identification information and the facsimile identification information.