Patent ID: 9660871
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. An electronic device that requires setup of plural setting items upon initial startup operations, the electronic device comprising: a memory that stores designated setting information and a setting status value indicating whether the setting items have been set up, the setting status value indicating a status of all of the setting items, and the designated setting information and the setting status value being stored and updated each time a setup of one of the setting items is completed; and circuitry configured to refer to the memory upon performing the initial startup operations to determine whether at least one of the setting items has been set up, and start setup operations for other setting items that have not yet been set up, wherein the setting items include a language setting for selecting a language to be used in a user interface, a format/time zone setting for selecting a format/time zone corresponding to a region in which the electronic device is situated, and a network setting for setting up network information of the electronic device, a first setting value indicates that none of the language setting, the format/time zone setting, and the network setting have been completed, a second setting value indicates that the language setting has been completed, but the format/time zone setting and the network setting have not been completed, a third setting value indicates that the language setting and the format/time zone setting have been completed, but the network setting has not been completed, and a fourth setting value indicates that the language setting, the format/time zone setting, and the network setting have been completed.