NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ITS CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COPY READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make another device on a network recognize a device which does not support a network correspondence type plug-and-play as a corresponding device, and function it.;SOLUTION: A proxy server 300 retrieves a printer 200 which does not correspond to a plug-and-play existing on a network 500, and registers it through a storage device control part 15 into a hard disk. The proxy server 300 prepares the Device DEscription of the plug-and-play in order to behave like the device of the plug-and-play for the registered printer. At the time of receiving the retrieval message of the plug-and-play from the network, the proxy server transmits the prepared Device DEscription as a response message to show that it is a UPnP device instead of the printer. At the time of receiving print job data from the network, the proxy server 300 converts a protocol for the printing device, and transmits job data to the printing device.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI