Patent ID: 9690529
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A device selecting apparatus comprising: a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of devices comprising a plurality of available devices that are controllable by the device selecting apparatus and a plurality of unavailable devices that are not controllable by the device selecting apparatus, wherein the plurality of available devices comprise: a display configured to display a list of device identifiers of the plurality of available devices, each of the device identifiers identifying a corresponding device; a third memory; a controller comprising a processor, the controller being configured to execute controller-executable instructions to: discriminating the plurality of available devices from among the plurality of devices based on the reply received from each of the plurality of devices; and determine whether an identifier of the one particular device, identified by the received information received from the one particular device, is on the list of device identifiers of the plurality of available devices; when determining that the identifier of the one particular device is not on the list of the device identifiers of the plurality of available devices, provide a notification that it is not possible to select the identifier of the one particular device; when determining that the identifier of the one particular device is the first device identifier of the first device on the list of device identifiers of the plurality of available devices: