Patent ID: 8595286

Claim:
A management apparatus, connected to a plurality of first information processing apparatuses, to manage the first information processing apparatuses for a second information processing apparatus, comprising: a computer processor configured to: receive, from the second information processing apparatus, a data request according to a first protocol containing identification information identifying one of the first information processing apparatuses, convert the data request according to the first protocol into a data request according to a second protocol, thereby the second information processing apparatus communicably connectable to the first information processing apparatuses through the management apparatus, receive the data request according to the second protocol, acquire, based on the identification information contained in the data request, communication setting information, including address and communication protocol information, for communicating with the one first information apparatus according to a third protocol, convert the received data request according to the second protocol into a data request according to the third protocol, and transmit the data request according to the third protocol to the one first information processing apparatus, a type of the third protocol being different depending on the one first processing apparatus correspondence to the acquired address information.