Patent attributes
A system is provided with which a user of an information processing apparatus is requested to pay only the license charges of the necessary functions of the pre-installed software and an information processing apparatus vendor or the like is also not requested to pay unwanted license fees to the licensors. An information processing apparatus, which has pre-installed at least one software providing a plurality of functions to which each license fee is charged respectively and enables selection of use or no use of the relevant functions, comprises a software storage unit for storing the pre-installed software, a function selection processing unit for executing only the function selected from the stored software, and a network communication unit for transmitting, via the network, the selected function information including the information indicating correspondence between the software name and selected function.
