Patent ID: 8521807

Claim:
A method of controlling the movement of user setting information that is registered in a server, the method comprising: transmitting, from a client to the server, a movement request message comprising a single uniform resource identifier (URI) that is defined to move a particular user setting information from a first position on a list to a second position on the list; and processing, at the server, the movement of the particular user setting information as commanded by the movement request message, and transmitting a response message to the client, the processing comprising: checking whether the particular user setting information indicated by the movement request message exists; checking the movement request message to determine whether new user setting information exists; moving the particular user setting information to the second position in response to the particular user setting information existing and the new user setting information not existing; and updating the particular user setting information based on the new user setting information at the second position, in response to the new user setting information existing.