Patent ID: 8274677

Claim:
An information processing system, comprising: an image forming device having a printing unit; and an information processing apparatus connected to the image forming device via a network, wherein said image forming device includes a supplying unit configured to supply, to the information processing apparatus in response to a request from the information processing apparatus, an installer for a printer driver that is necessary for using the printing unit, and a display screen sharing client unit including a screen-data receiving unit configured to receive data of a display screen displayed at the information processing apparatus, a screen-data displaying unit configured to display, on a display unit of said image forming device based on the data of the display screen, the display screen that is displayed at the information processing apparatus, an operation event acquiring unit configured to detect an operation event that is input into the display screen displayed at the image forming device, and a display screen sharing client unit configured to transmit the operation event to the information processing apparatus, and wherein said information processing apparatus includes: a display screen sharing server unit configured to supply the data of the display screen displayed at the information processing apparatus, to the image forming device; an operation event receiving unit configured to receive the operation event transmitted from the image forming device; and a print setting unit configured to send a request for the installer of the printing unit to the image forming device in response to the operation event received by the operation event receiving unit, to activate the installer provided by the image forming device to install a printer device, for a print job to the printing unit, in the information processing apparatus, and to automatically make a setting necessary to cause the printing unit to print document data stored in the information processing apparatus.