Patent ID: 7302699

Claim:
A logged-in device that is logged in by a plurality of specific devices via a predetermined communication path, the logged-in device comprising: a response unit that gives a response of failed log-in to one specific device of interest, which has just output a request of log-in, when a number of specific devices that currently log in the logged-in device reaches a predetermined allowable number of simultaneous log-ins; and a re-request timing specification unit that specifies a timing of re-request of log-in to determine a time when the specific device of interest, which has just output the request of log-in, should output another request of log-in, and assigns the specified timing of re-request to the specific device of interest, when the response unit gives the response of failed log-in, a predetermined relationship being between the specified timing and the specific device of interest, the specified timing being based on an ordinal number of precedence of the specific device of interest.