Patent ID: 10194003

Abstract:
In the case where a user changes a setting value, such as an IP address, in a client device equipped with a server function, the setting value as a server is changed, and as a result of this, it is no longer possible to implement synchronization processing with the client. An information processing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store a server application for managing setting information of one or more clients and store a client application, the server application managing server address information representing a connection destination address which is used by the one or more clients to access the server application and the client application managing client address information representing an address of the information processing apparatus as a client which is one of the one or more clients, and both the server address information and the client address information indicating an address of the information processing apparatus; and, one or more processing units configured to execute the server application and the client application and change, in a case where the client address information has been changed or is to be changed, the server address information so that the server address information indicates the same address as the client address information which has been changed or is to be changed.