Patent ID: 8682194

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for displaying a peripheral device management screen to manage a peripheral device, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store, in a storage part, peripheral device management information in which information to instruct execution of at least one processing relating to the peripheral device from the peripheral device management screen is defined; a management screen forming unit configured to determine a configuration and a content of the peripheral device management screen based on the information defined in the peripheral device management information; an installation determination unit configured to determine whether to install the peripheral device management information; a display determination unit configured to determine whether to automatically display the peripheral device management screen in response to the peripheral device management information being installed based on an installation determination result of the installation determination unit; and a display control unit configured to execute control to display the peripheral device management screen based on a display determination result of the display determination unit, wherein the display control unit executes control to display, in response to a plurality of pieces of peripheral device management information corresponding to a plurality of peripheral devices being simultaneously updated, a peripheral device management screen corresponding to a specific peripheral device among the plurality of peripheral devices while executing control not to display any peripheral device management screens corresponding to peripheral devices among the plurality of peripheral devices other than the specific peripheral device.