Patent ID: 9544452
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a housing accommodating a plurality of component devices serving functions provided in the information processing apparatus; a plurality of tags mounted to individual locations on the housing relating to respective associated component devices, each of the plurality of tags being previously embedded with a piece of device type information indicating a component device associated with the tag, the piece of device type information embedded in one of the plurality of tags being different from other device type information embedded in the other tag and being read by a tag reader included in a mobile terminal when the mobile terminal comes close to one tag; a storage section configured to store in association with the piece of device type information a plurality of component device information sets indicating respective sets of information about the component devices; a communication section configured to send and receive data to and from the mobile terminal; and a communication control section configured to allow the communication section to receive data sent from the mobile terminal, the data containing the piece of device type information that has been acquired by the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal read one of the plurality of tags, and allow the communication section to send back to the mobile terminal, out of the plurality of component device information sets stored in the storage section, the component device information set about the component device having been stored in association with the piece of device type information sent from the mobile terminal.