Patent ID: 8301625

Claim:
An information processing device to which an electric appliance is communicably connected, comprising: means for receiving a data packet that receives the data packet from an electric appliance, the received data packet containing information for determining a type of the electric appliance; means for storing a definition file corresponding to each of a plurality of types of electric appliances, wherein each definition file contains defining data based on at least two kinds of data packets, that also stores a score associated with each of the at least two kinds of data packets for each definition file; means for scoring that compares the received data packet with each of the at least two kinds of data packets contained in each definition file so as to perform scoring for each definition file based on the stored scores associated with each of the at least two kinds of data packets; and means for determining a type of an electric appliance that extracts a stored definition file having a highest score provided by the means for scoring and determines from the defining data of the extracted definition file the type of the electric appliance from which the means for receiving received the data packet.