Patent ID: 7949003
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An image formation device having a first network interface assigned a first identification information, and a second network interface assigned a second identification information, comprising: a presence check request receiving unit which receives presence check requests, transmitted from a management device via a network, for a check on the presence or absence of each network interface on the network, with the first network interface and the second network interface, respectively; a combined identification information generating unit which generates a first combined identification information and a second combined identification information by combining an entirety of the first identification information and an entirety of the second identification information, respectively, an order of the first identification information and the second identification information included in the first combined identification information being different from an order of the first identification information and the second identification information included in the second combined identification information; and a combined identification information transmitting unit which transmits the first combined identification information from the first network interface and transmits the second combined identification information from the second network interface, wherein the first identification information and the second identification information, each are a series of codes of a fixed number of digits unique to each respective network interface.