Patent ID: 8015322

Claim:
An information-processing system that processes set-up identification information that specifies a set-up item, the set-up item being an adjustment attribute of a predetermined function of an electronic apparatus connectable to a network, comprising: an electronic apparatus that sets a parameter and electronic apparatuses on which the parameter is set are connected to each other; and wherein each electronic apparatus on which the parameter is set: receives the set-up identification information from the electronic apparatus that sets the parameter, the set-up identification including a parameter identifier corresponding to a particular parameter; stores an information conversion table by which the parameter identifier received from the electronic apparatus that sets the parameter is converted into a parameter identifier of the electronic apparatus on which the parameter is set; analyzes the set-up identification information thus received; determines whether the parameter identifier matches a particular parameter of the electronic apparatus on which the parameter is set; converts, when the parameter identifier does not match the particular parameter, the parameter identifier received into a parameter identifier of the electronic apparatus on which the parameter is set, by using as an address the received parameter identifier as an entry in the information conversion table; converts the set-up identification information thus analyzed into set-up identification information of the electronic apparatus on which the parameter is set; and changes a parameter setting of the electronic apparatus on which the parameter is set on the basis of adjustment contents of the set-up item correlated with the set-up identification information thus converted, wherein when the electronic apparatuses on which the parameter is being set are made by the same manufacturer and are of the same category but of different types, a different set-up identifier is assigned to a different parameter that adjusts the same function of the respective apparatus; wherein when the electronic apparatuses on which the parameter is being set are made by the same manufacturer and are of the same category and of the same type, the same set-up identifier is assigned to parameters that make the same setting; and wherein when the electronic apparatuses on which the parameter is being set are of the same category, a common parameter set-up identifier is assigned to set-up items that adjust the same function of the apparatuses.