Patent ID: 7251724

Claim:
An apparatus for configuring a device environment for a system of one or more connected devices, each device having a device profile, the system running an operation system (OS), the apparatus comprising: a device profile display controller for generating a display, based on a connection status of one or more devices in the system, of device profiles from system configuration information managed by the system OS in selected display groups; and a device profile setting section for writing a device profile for a device to the system configuration information so that the profile corresponds to the connection status of the device; wherein the device profile setting section comprises: an input/output controller for inputting information to be written to a device profile in the system configuration information based on connections of the devices displayed by the device profile display controller; a device profile editor for editing the device profile based on information inputted by the input/output controller; a device profile verification unit for verifying the device profile edited by the device profile editor; and a device profile updating unit for updating a device profile in the system configuration information.