Patent ID: 7984124

Claim:
An address setting apparatus for assigning, via a network, an address to an apparatus in the network, the address setting apparatus comprising: at least one processor programmed to control: an acquisition device that obtains the address of the apparatus via the network; a first determination device that determines whether or not the address obtained by the acquisition device is of the network to which the address setting apparatus belongs; a second determination device that determines whether or not the address obtained by the acquisition device is a default address of the apparatus; a list generation device that generates a first apparatus list which indicates apparatus information corresponding to the address, when it is determined by the second determination device that the address is a default address of the apparatus, as an apparatus requiring address setting; a notification device that notifies a user with the first apparatus list generated by the list generation device; a list addition device that adds, to the first apparatus list, a second apparatus list which indicates apparatus information corresponding to the address which is determined by the first determination device that the address is not of the network to which the address setting apparatus belongs and further determined by the second determination device that the address is not a default address of the apparatus; an input device that allows the user to input an address to be assigned to the apparatus notified by the notification device; and a transmission device that sends instructions for the apparatus notified by the notification device to assign itself the address inputted by the input device.