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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2001
Satoru Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Munehiro Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobutaka Tani, Saitama, JP;
Shinji Okazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Natsuko Yotsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Asai, Kanagawa, JP;
Mami Uchida, Saitama, JP;
Takaaki Miura, Tokushima, JP;
Katsuhisa Takata, Tokushima, JP;
Satoru Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Munehiro Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobutaka Tani, Saitama, JP;
Shinji Okazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Natsuko Yotsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Asai, Kanagawa, JP;
Mami Uchida, Saitama, JP;
Takaaki Miura, Tokushima, JP;
Katsuhisa Takata, Tokushima, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Justsystem Corporation, Tokushima, JP;
Abstract
An information processing method and apparatus for enabling more prompt sign-up. A network management server at step Sreceived am equipment serial number from an information processing apparatus and, at step s, references a database to retrieve a received equipment serial number. If the equipment serial number has not been found, the program moves to step Swhere a command for initiating manual setting is sent to an information processing apparatus. If the equipment serial number has been found, the program moves to step Sto verify whether or not the admittance made or admittance not as yet made, recorded in the database in association with the equipment serial number received is admittance made. If the verified result indicates admittance not as yet made, the program moves to step Swhere the network management server sends an automatic setting initiating command to the information processing apparatus.