Patent ID: 7945646
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network device display method carried out in an information processing apparatus having a display unit, comprising: a first transmission step of broadcasting on a network first data requesting physical addresses of network devices on the network for performing a network device search; a first reception step of receiving first reply data from network devices on the network in response to the first data transmitted in said first transmission step, the first reply data including a physical address of the device transmitting the first reply data; a second transmission step of broadcasting on the network second data requesting network addresses of network devices on the network for performing a network device search; a second reception step of receiving second reply data from network devices on the network in response to the second data transmitted in said second transmission step, wherein the second reply data includes a network address of the device transmitting the second reply data and is received only from network devices having a set network address; a list display step of displaying, on the display unit, a list of the network devices from which the first reply data is received in said first reception step, wherein said list display step displays, for each of the network devices, (a) the physical address of the network device as information of the network device, without displaying the network address of the network device, if the second reply data is not received from the network device in said second reception step, and (b) the network address of the network device as information of the network device, without displaying the physical address of the network device, if the second reply data is received from the network device in said second reception step; a selecting step of a user selecting one of the network devices from the displayed list on the display unit; and a setting step of transmitting data for setting of setting information to the selected one of the network devices selected from the list by the user, wherein the list of the network devices displayed on the display unit is provided to allow the user to recognize whether network address setting has been performed in the network devices from which the first reply data is received in said first reception step.