Patent ID: 8499145
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A device setting apparatus configured to connect to a counterpart apparatus through a network, the device setting apparatus comprising: a storage device configured to store information specifying a procedure to be performed by the device setting apparatus to cause the counterpart apparatus to perform a user request; a communication device configured to send a secure communication request to the counterpart apparatus to start secure communication via a secure interface protocol; a processor including after the operation of setting the secure communication for the counterpart apparatus is executed, the process determiner device determines whether the procedure to be performed by the device setting apparatus to cause the counterpart apparatus to perform a user request is one of one or more procedures that require secure communication or one of one or more procedures that do not require secure communication to generate a second determination result, and when the second determination result indicates that the procedure is one of one or more procedures that do not require secure communication, the process manager device causes the communication device to