Patent ID: 8793424

Claim:
A switch apparatus capable of being coupled to a computer and a plurality of devices, the switch apparatus comprising: a first bridge coupled to the computer; a second-bridge group including a plurality of bridges coupled to the devices; a controller that controls the connection relationship between the first bridge and the second-bridge group, assigns first identifiers identified by the devices having unique bus identifiers to the plurality of devices, assigns second identifiers identified by the computer to the devices in accordance with a third identifier assigned to the first bridge in response to an instruction for reading connection states of the devices received from the computer when the computer is coupled to the first bridge, acquires first memory address ranges corresponding to memory sizes required for the operation of the devices, and assigns second memory address ranges to a memory of the computer; a conversion table representing correspondence relationships between the first identifiers and the second identifiers, and representing correspondence relationships between the first memory address ranges and the second memory address ranges, wherein the controller converts one of the third identifiers and one of the second identifiers included in a packet transmitted between the first bridge and the second-bridge group from one to another based on the conversion table, and converts one of the first memory address ranges and one of the second memory ranges included in the packet based on the conversion table.