INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

An information processing apparatus comprises: a management unit adapted to manage plural network addresses; an allocation unit adapted to, according to a request from an apparatus newly connected to a network, allocate, from among the network addresses managed by the management unit, the network address not allocated to other apparatus; a storage unit adapted to store the network address of a search server of performing a search according to a search request for searching for a device on the network and of responding to the search request by a searched result; and a transmission unit adapted to transmit the network address allocated by the allocation unit and the network address stored in the storage unit to the apparatus.