Patent ID: 8760686

Claim:
An information processing apparatus that is connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses with a network, the information processing apparatus comprising: at least a processor and a memory, cooperating to function as: a device information holder configured to hold device information that includes identifiers of image forming apparatuses that are currently registered to an application and were registered to the application in the past; a search unit configured to make a request with a user ID to the image forming apparatuses that correspond to the device information held by the device information holder, and to obtain operational settings information, for which access rights are granted to the user ID, from the image forming apparatuses that correspond to the device information held by the device information holder, wherein the operational settings information defines an operation of an image forming apparatus, and wherein the search unit does not make the request with the user ID to other image forming apparatuses that do not correspond to the device information held by the device information holder; and a registration request unit configured to issue a registration request to register the operational settings information obtained by the search unit to a new image forming apparatus that is newly registered to the application.