Patent ID: 8448005

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for comprising: an accepting unit configured to accept network addresses having been transferred from another information processing apparatus, thereby the network addresses are allocated for the information processing apparatus and not for the other information processing apparatus; and a responding unit configured to make a response corresponding to an access request from a host device, if a network address which is not related to a return of the other information processing apparatus from a power saving state to a normal state is accessed from among the network addresses having been transferred by the accepting unit, wherein the accepting unit is operable to accept the network addresses having been transferred from the other information processing apparatus and information about a network address retained in the other information processing apparatus, and wherein the information processing apparatus further comprises an access unit configured to access, via the network, the network address retained in the other information processing apparatus based on the information about a network address retained in the other information processing apparatus if the network address which is related to the return of the other information processing apparatus from the power saving state to the normal state is accessed from among the network addresses accepted by the accepting unit by the host device.