Patent ID: 8166149

Claim:
An information-processing apparatus configured to connect with any one of mutually connected networks, comprising: a storage that stores device identifiers and a plurality of device-appended information, wherein each of the device-appended information is associated with a device identifier to which a device-appended information has been appended; a processor; and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor to provide a receiver that receives, from a client terminal connected with one of the mutually connected networks, the device identifier to which the device-appended information is appended while the device identifier is transferred to the information-processing apparatus, and receives from a terminal connected with one of the mutually connected networks an identifier-inquiry to which terminal-appended information is appended while the identifier-inquiry is transferred to the information-processing apparatus; and a transmitter that transmits to the terminal, in a case where one of the stored device-appended information coincides with the terminal-appended information appended to the identifier-inquiry, the device identifier that is associated with the coincided device-appended information, wherein the receiver receives the device identifier from the client terminal when a device driver for the device identified by the device identifier is installed into the client terminal.