US 11,714,582 B2
Virtual device, operating system, virtual device service, information processing apparatus, and method of controlling information processing apparatus
Norihiro Arai, Toride (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/552,230.
Application 17/552,230 is a continuation of application No. 16/885,005, filed on May 27, 2020, granted, now 11,221,805.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-101508 (JP), filed on May 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0107765 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1206 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1209 (2013.01); G06F 3/1231 (2013.01); G06F 3/1254 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus including an application for generating a virtual printer, the method performed by executing the application and comprising:
registering a name of a physical printer that responded to a request of searching for a printer;
receiving a request of searching for a printer, wherein the request is received after the registration; and
responding to the received request of searching for a printer with predetermined information in combination with the registered name of the physical printer, wherein the predetermined information indicates that a device performing the responding is a virtual printer.