Patent ID: 8185887

Claim:
A system for installing a printer driver on an information terminal through a network, said system comprising: a map repository storing a plurality of map images; a printer information database storing printer information corresponding to a plurality of printers, the stored printer information including location information for said plurality of printers; and a processor and a computer readable medium tangibly embodying a plurality of instructions executable by the processor to provide an installation application comprising: a map management part that receives a specified position of the information terminal from the information terminal, retrieves a map image from said map repository based on the specified position, and retrieves printer location information for one or more printers from said printer information database based on the specified position, and a user interface that displays the retrieved map image with indicia on said map image of locations of the respective one or more printers, including a first indicia of a first printer, and recognizes a user selection of the indicia of said respective one or more printers displayed on the map image, wherein in response to recognition by the user interface of the user selection of the first indicia of the first printer displayed on the map image, said installation application installs a printer driver corresponding to the user-selected first indicia of the first printer, on said information terminal, and wherein said indicia of the locations of the respective one or more printers and the first indicia of the first printer are icons, and said map management part dynamically places icons on said map image based on the retrieved printer location information.