Patent ID: 7890667

Claim:
A printing device to be connected to a network, which is configured to input and/or output data, comprising: a self-address storing system configured to store the printing device address; a receiving system configured to receive display assigning data and ping data for visually confirming an actual physical location of the printing device, wherein a destination of the display assigning data and the ping data is an address stored in the self-address storing system, wherein each of the display assigning data and ping data is being transmitted from one or more other devices through the network; an integrated displaying system configured to display at least one of a character string and a graphic form; an informing execution system configured to: determine whether the device transmitting the display assigning data is the same device transmitting the ping data, execute an informing operation by changing a display state of the displaying system responsive to determining that the same device transmitted the display assigning data and the ping data, and prevent the informing operation responsive to determining that different devices transmitted the display assigning data and the ping data; and an informing condition storing system configured to store an informing display condition in response to the receiving system receiving data that assigns the informing display condition, wherein the informing execution system is configured to execute the informing operation by changing a display state of the displaying system based upon the informing display condition stored in the informing condition storing system.