Patent ID: 7305504

Claim:
A host device connected with at least one slave device through an IEEE 1394 bus, comprising: an IEEE 1394 interface which connects the at least one slave devices; an input device which inputs a display-device-list command for the at least one slave devices; a device list manager which sorts the at least one slave devices according to a predetermined criterion of a device type by using the device type from device information of the at least one slave devices and creates a device list of the sorted at least one slave devices; a display device; a controller which controls the device list manager to create the device list when the display-device-list command is inputted, and to control display of the created device list on the display device; and an IEEE 1394 bus driver which collects the device information of the at least one slave device connected to the IEEE 1394 interface, wherein the controller, when the display-device-list command is inputted, controls the IEEE 1394 bus driver to collect the device information of the slave device and transfers the collected device information to the device list manager.