Patent attributes
A method of installing a device driver for a system including a multifunction device, a first terminal device and a second terminal device. The multifunction device is connected to the first terminal device. The first and second terminal devices are connected through a network. The first terminal device is installed with first and second device drivers respectively for first and second functions of the multifunction device. According to the method, when the second device is set to connect with the multifunction device through the first terminal device with respect to the first function, the first device driver is installed in the second terminal device with the second device driver installed as a part of the first device driver. When the first device driver installed in the second terminal device is initialized, and the second device driver is also initialized.