Hitachi, Ltd.

Yusaku Nakamura

Nobuhiro Maki

Takayuki Nagai

Takaki Kuroda

Daisuke Shinohara

The management system of the present invention is capable of efficiently discovering each apparatus coupled to a communication network. The management serverjudges a type of an apparatus coupled to a communication networkon the basis of service utilization information T, which is acquired from a discovered device or acquired from a device (an iSNS server, for example) having a name server function for resolving an address from a public name, and on the basis of discovery management information prepared beforehand (S, S). The management serveracquires a communication protocol in accordance with the type of the apparatus from protocol selection rules T, and attempts authentication of the apparatus by using the communication protocol (S).

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Yokohama, Japan

Yusaku Nakamura