Patent ID: 7234016
Filing Date: 2007-06-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus connected to first information processing means via a bus single system, both the bus and said first information processing means being provided outside the information processing apparatus, comprising: a bus inputting terminal connected to the bus; another inputting terminal directly connected to second information processing means, wherein said second information processing means does not conform to the standard that the bus is based on and are provided outside the information processing apparatus; a selecting device for selectively inputting input information supplied from a plurality of input sources; an acquisition device for acquiring first information for specifying said first information processing means connected through the bus; and a setting device for setting one of said first information processing means in place of one of the plurality of the input sources, the input sources being for said second information processing means, as an alternative in the selecting device, based on the acquired first information.