Patent ID: 8813664

Claim:
A controller that is communicably connected to a plurality of sewing machines and that includes a display device displaying at least information pertaining to a sewing operation, the controller, comprising: a display controller that is provided with a plurality of queues, each queue allocated to each of the plurality of sewing machines and that displays, by the display device, sew pattern data stored in each queue of the plurality of queues such that the sew pattern data is organized by the sewing machine of the plurality of sewing machines associated therewith; a specifier that specifies one or more sew pattern data from a source queue of the plurality of queues associated with one of the plurality of sewing machines displayed on the display device; a data modifier that transfers or copies the one or more sew pattern data specified by the specifier from the source queue to a destination queue of the plurality of queues associated with another sewing machine of the plurality of sewing machines; and a data transmitter that transmits the sew pattern data modified by the data modifier stored in the source queue and the destination queue to each sewing machines of the plurality of sewing machines associated therewith.