Patent ID: 8750606

Claim:
A device link profile creation method comprising: storing a plurality of device link profiles in a storage unit with information about a first device profile which is used to create one of the plurality of device link profiles, for each of the plurality of device link profiles; storing the first device profile in the storage unit; and performing control by a control unit to: when the first device profile is updated to be a second device profile, detect the second device profile; detect a first device link profile among the plurality of device link profiles, the first device link profile being created by using the first device profile, as a device link profile to be updated; automatically create a second device link profile by using the second device profile; and update the detected device link profile to be updated by replacing the device link profile to be updated with the created second device link profile; the device link profile creation method further comprising: setting an update detection rule for a device profile by allowing a choice, by the control unit, of whether to detect a device profile, creation time information of which is changed, as the second device profile, or to detect a device profile, the creation time information of which is changed, and which includes a change at a binary level after the creation time information is changed, as the second device profile, wherein the control unit detects an update of the first device profile into the second device profile by using the update detection rule for a device profile.