When the electronic system, name settlement manner and name settlement

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an electronic apparatus capable of performing communication with another electronic apparatus of a communication network without using a special device for name solution, to obtain a name solving method for performing name solution, and to obtain a name solution control program.;SOLUTION: A first electronic apparatus 102₁ includes apparatus information of its own apparatus in XML data of a UPnP description and registers the apparatus information in a storing part 127₁, or the like. Apparatus information of another electronic apparatus connected to a network is requested by transmitting an M-SEARCH packet by multicast, a name solving part 130₁ extracts obtained apparatus information, and the apparatus information is associated with each apparatus, for example, as an IP address, a MAC address and an apparatus name. If apparatus information is requested to the other apparatus on the basis of the M-SEARCH packet sent from the other apparatus, apparatus information can mutually be acquired.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT