Information processing apparatus, information processing system and computer readable medium

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a plurality of labels, each of the plurality of labels is associated with a name for identifying a device and a respective icon of a plurality of icons;

a plurality of pieces of setting information which are associated with respective labels of the plurality of labels, and each piece of setting information of the plurality of pieces of setting information including a setting item corresponding to an operation of the device and setting content corresponding to the setting item;

an identification section that, in response to a request received from the device when the operation is executed by the device, acquires information for identifying one of the plurality of labels, and identifies the one of the plurality of labels from the information; and

an application section that applies setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels identified by the identification section based on the name for identifying the device associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the operation executed by the device and transmits a device driver to apply the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the device, and

wherein the operation of the device comprises using an icon from a plurality of icons to generate a job based on the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels and transmitting the job to be performed at a second device from the device to the second device via the information processing apparatus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of labels and the plurality of pieces of setting information are described in a configuration file of the device driver.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein one of the plurality of labels indicates an initial setting.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 ,

wherein setting information associated with the one of plurality of labels indicating the initial setting is overwritten with setting information associated with another one of the plurality of labels.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein a name of at least one of the plurality of labels indicates at least part of information for identifying a user.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein a name of at least one of the plurality of labels indicates at least part of information for identifying the information processing apparatus.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein an arbitrary character string is allowed to be applied to a name of at least one of the plurality of labels.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a setting section that sets an authority to produce or edit the configuration file of the device driver.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a setting section that sets an authority to produce or edit the information for identifying the one of the plurality of labels.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a setting section that sets an authority to access the information for identifying the device.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for setting a plurality of devices of an identical model, the process comprising:

a plurality of labels, each of the plurality of labels is associated with a name for identifying a device and a respective icon of a plurality of icons;

a plurality of pieces of setting information which are associated with respective labels of the plurality of labels, and each piece of setting information of the plurality of pieces of setting information including a setting item corresponding to an operation of one of the plurality of devices and setting content corresponding to the setting item; and

an application section, in response to a request received from the one of the plurality of devices, that applies the setting item corresponding to the operation of the one of the plurality of devices and the setting content corresponding to the setting item to the operation of the one of the plurality of devices based on the name for identifying the one of the plurality of devices associated with a respective label of the plurality of labels and transmits a device driver to apply the setting item and the setting content to the one of the plurality of devices,

wherein the operation of the one of the plurality of devices comprises using an icon from a plurality of icons to generate a job based on the setting information associated with one of the plurality of labels and transmitting the job to be performed at a second device from the device to the second device via an information processing apparatus.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program of a device driver causing a computer to execute a process for setting a plurality of devices of an identical model, the process comprising:

reading a plurality of labels, each of the plurality of labels is associated with a name for identifying a device and a respective icon of a plurality of icons, and a plurality of pieces of setting information which are associated with the respective labels of the plurality of labels, and each piece of setting information of the plurality of pieces of setting information indicating a setting item corresponding to an operation of one of the plurality of devices and setting content corresponding to the setting item;

acquiring information for identifying one of the plurality of labels in response to a request received from the one of the plurality of devices when the operation is executed by the one of the plurality of devices; and

identifying the one of plurality of labels from the acquired information and applying setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels based on the name for identifying the one of the plurality of devices associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the operation executed by the one of the plurality of devices and transmitting a device driver to apply the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the one of the plurality of devices,

wherein the operation of the one of the plurality of devices comprises using an icon from a plurality of icons to generate a job based on the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels and transmitting the job to be performed at a second device from the device to the second device via an information processing apparatus.

13. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a plurality of labels, each of the plurality of labels is associated with a name for identifying a device and a respective icon of a plurality of icons;

a plurality of pieces of setting information which are associated with respective labels of the plurality of labels, and each piece of setting information of the plurality of pieces of setting information including a setting item corresponding to an operation of a device and setting content corresponding to the setting item;

an identification section that, in response to a request received from the device when the operation is executed by the device, acquires information for identifying one of the plurality of labels, and identifies the one of the plurality of labels from the information; and

an application section that applies setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels identified by the identification section based on the name for identifying the device associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the operation executed by the device and transmits a device driver to apply the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the device,

wherein one of the plurality of labels indicates an initial setting,

wherein setting information associated with the one of plurality of labels indicating the initial setting is overwritten with setting information associated with another one of the plurality of labels, and

wherein the operation executed by the device comprises using an icon from a plurality of icons to generate a job based on the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels and transmitting the job to be performed at a second device from the device to the second device via the information processing apparatus.

14. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a plurality of labels, each of the plurality of labels is associated with a name for identifying a device and a respective icon of a plurality of icons;

a plurality of pieces of setting information which are associated with respective labels of the plurality of labels described in a configuration file, and each piece of setting information of the plurality of pieces of setting information including a setting item corresponding to an operation of the device and setting content corresponding to the setting item;

an identification section that, in response to a request received from the device when the operation is executed by the device, acquires information for identifying one of the plurality of labels, and identifies the one of the plurality of labels from the information; and

an application section that applies setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels described in the configuration file and identified by the identification section based on the name for identifying the device associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the operation executed by the device and transmits a device driver to apply the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the device,

wherein the operation of the device comprises using an icon from the plurality of icons for generating a job, using the device driver to apply the setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels to the device, and transmitting the job to be performed at a second device from the device to the second device via the information processing apparatus.