Patent ID: 7619758

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for transmitting an installation set of a printer driver to another information processing apparatus based on an instruction of a Point and Print transmitted from the another information processing apparatus, comprising: a designation unit that designates, in a case where the instruction of the Point and Print is transmitted, whether or not to transmit an installation set that includes the printer driver and a function expansion module in order to expand a function of the printer driver and to be activated, to the another information processing apparatus by using an interface of the information processing apparatus; a decision unit that decides whether or not to transmit the installation set that includes the printer driver and the function expansion module to be activated to the another information processing apparatus based on a designation of said designation unit; and a transmitting unit that (i) transmits to the another information processing apparatus, in a case where a transmission of the installation set that includes the printer driver and the function expansion module to be activated is decided by said decision unit, the installation set that includes the printer driver and the function expansion module to be activated, based on the instruction of the Point and Print, and (ii) transmits to the another information processing apparatus, in a case where a transmission of the installation set that includes the printer driver and the function expansion module to be activated is not decided by said decision unit, an installation set that includes the printer driver and does not include the function expansion module to be activated, based on the instruction of the Point and Print.