Patent ID: 9672166
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An address information management apparatus, comprising: a storage unit that stores a relationship between a device connected to the address information management apparatus and address information assigned to the device; and a processor executing a process that causes the address information management apparatus to perform: first assigning, when the relationship is stored in the storage unit at startup of the address information management apparatus, the address information to the device being connected to the address information management apparatus according to the relationship stored in the storage unit, and, when the relationship is not stored in the storage unit at the startup of the address information management apparatus, address information to the device being connected to the address information management apparatus according to a predetermined procedure; and updating, in response to a second assigning, the relationship stored in the storage unit, when further address information is assigned in the second assigning to a new device additionally connected to the address information management apparatus during operation of the address information management apparatus so that the further address information does not overlap the address information assigned to the device already connected to the address information management apparatus.