Patent ID: 7395357
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit including a non-rewritable storage unit and a rewritable storage unit, the storage unit storing a command processing program which comprises a table part and an analyzing program part, and determines whether to acqiuire or set device information based on a command; and a controlling unit that controls the information processing apparatus based on the command processing program, wherein the rewritable storage unit stores the table part of the command processing program, the table part including a plurality of device information names, each of which indicates kind of the device information and a plurality of location information which corresponds to each of the plurality of device information names and indicates a location of the respective device information, and wherein the non-rewriteable storage unit stores the analyzing program part for analyzing contents of the command and acquiring location information of the device information from the table part based on the contents of the command.