Patent ID: 7483759

Claim:
A method for controlling allocation information set in an audio apparatus, said method comprising: a step of creating, by means of a computer system, setting information to be transmitted to said audio apparatus in accordance with an instruction entered by a user; a step of transmitting the setting information, created by said step of creating, from said computer system to said audio apparatus; a step of causing said audio apparatus to store the allocation information into a storage section of said audio apparatus in accordance with the setting information received from said computer system, wherein the allocation information is used when said audio apparatus, in accordance with a first control signal transmitted from a remote controller and instructing said audio apparatus to perform a first predetermined control process, performs the first predetermined control process indicated by the first control signal when a first predetermined condition is met; and a step of causing a second control signal to be transmitted from said remote controller to said audio apparatus and instructing said audio apparatus to relay said second control signal to said computer system when a second predetermined condition is met, wherein said computer system performs a second predetermined control process.