Patent ID: 8345284

Claim:
An information processing system comprising: a device with which an address is associated; and one or more information processing devices connected to the device via a network; wherein the device includes: a registration unit in which identification information, specifying each of the information processing devices that stores the address of the device and controls the device by use of the stored address, is registered; a change information generating unit which generates change information, to be used for incorporating a change of the address associated with the device into the address stored in each information processing device, upon a change of the address associated with the device; a first transmission unit which transmits the change information generated by the change information generating unit to each information processing device specified by the identification information registered in the registration unit; and an addition unit which additionally registers further identification information specifying a further information processing device in the registration unit upon installation of an application regarding control of the device in the further information processing device.