Patent ID: 8180863

Claim:
An address setting apparatus for assigning an address to a device in a network having a plurality of devices connected to the network via a network interface, the address setting apparatus comprising: a display device that displays a list of device information to a user; an input device that allows the user to input a new address to be set to a corresponding device based on the displayed list of device information; a first determination device that determines whether or not the address is a default address; a second determination device that determines whether or not the address of the device is of a different network from the network to which the address setting apparatus belongs; and a controller configured to acquire the address set to each of the plurality of devices connected to the network via the network interface and to generate a list of device information that includes devices that have an acquired address that is a default address of the device or devices that have an acquired address that is an address different from the network to which the address setting apparatus belongs when either one of the first and second determination devices makes a positive determination, and wherein the controller: displays the generated list of device information on the display device; and transmits the new address input by the user via the input device, based on the generated list of device information, to the corresponding device via the network interface as an address to be set to the corresponding device.