Patent ID: 7493378

Claim:
A network managing method for providing a device list that includes a plurality of records, each record including a plurality of device information corresponding respectively to a plurality of items, and each of the plurality of items represents a kind of the device information included in each record, said network managing method comprising: designating, at a management device, from among the plurality of items, at least one display-target item to be displayed on the device list, wherein, from among the plurality of device information included in each record of the device list, device information corresponding to the designated display-target items are set to be displayed while the device information corresponding to the items not designated as a display-target item are not set to be displayed in the device list, and designating any one of the plurality of items, which were not designated as a display-target item, as a sort-item, wherein, a display order of the plurality of records to be included in the device list is rearranged according to a content of the device information corresponding to the designated sort-item; a setting step of setting the designated sort-item as a display-target item to be displayed in the device list even though the item has not been designated as a display-target item in the designating step; a rearranging step of rearranging the records in the device list according to the content of the device information corresponding to the designated sort-item; and a display step of displaying the device list rearranged in the rearranging step, including the device information corresponding to the designated display-target items and the designated sort-item.