Patent ID: 8416703
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer program product having computer-readable instructions that cause a network management device, selected from one or more devices including one or more configured devices to which usage parameters have already been set, to execute a process for managing the usage parameters, wherein the usage parameters are necessary to be set to a setting target device before a function available via a network is available for use by the setting target device, the process comprising: a parameter acquisition step of acquiring one or more usage parameters already set to one of the configured devices from the configured device; and a candidate reporting step of reporting the usage parameters acquired in the parameter acquisition step as candidates for one or more usage parameters to be set to a setting target device, wherein the setting target device has been connected to the network management device via the network so as to be capable of communication with the network management device, wherein the setting of the one or more usage parameters to the setting target device enables the functions available via the network to be available to the setting target device, wherein the setting target device is not the configured device, wherein the process further comprises a first source designation step that allows a user to designate whether the network management device or a device other than the network management device, which device is connected to the network management device to be capable of data communication via a network, should be selected as a source of the usage parameters acquired in the parameter acquisition step, wherein the parameter acquisition step acquires the one or more usage parameters by reading out the usage parameters from a storage area of the network management device if the network management device is selected as the source in the first source designation step, and wherein the parameter acquisition step requests the device other than the network management device to send back one or more usage parameters already set to the device and acquires the usage parameters sent back in response to the request if the device other than the network management device is selected as the source in the first source designation step.