Patent ID: 7426591

Claim:
An information communication device connectable with an information system via a network, said information communication device comprising: a storage section for storing (i) identification information items being specific to the information communication device and allowing the information communication device to be identified, said identification information items including a device identifier by which the information communication device is identified, (ii) specific information items specific to the information communication device, and (iii) general information items whose settings are capable of being imported to other one or more information communication devices; a communication section for receiving identification information items, specific information items, and general information items through communication with an outside; a determination section for determining whether or not a device identifier included in the received identification information items is identical with the device identifier stored in the storage section; and an information registration section for (i) resetting the specific information items and the general information items stored in the storage section so that the specific information items and the general information items are respectively identical with the received specific information items and the received general information items when the determination section determines that the device identifiers are identical with each other and (ii) resetting only the general information items stored in the storage section so that the general information items are identical with the received general information items when the determination section determines that the device identifiers are not identical with each other.