Patent ID: 7930466
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A storage terminal comprising: a storage unit that stores first information and second information, the first information being information that is displayed according to a procedure defined in an Internet browser program, and the second information being information that is output according to a procedure defined in a program different from the Internet browser program; a communication unit that carries out communications with an information processing apparatus on which the Internet browser program is executed; and a controlling unit that executes processing according to a request received from the information processing apparatus, by executing an Internet server program; wherein when the request received from the information processing apparatus by the communication unit is a request specifying the first information, the controlling unit reads the specified first information from the storage unit, and sends the first information from the communication unit to the information processing apparatus according to a communication standard for communications by the storage terminal, and when the request received is a request generated by encapsulating specification information specifying the first information according to an Internet communication protocol used on the Internet and further encapsulating resulting data according to the communication standard for communications by the storage terminal, the controlling unit decapsulates the request to extract the specification information, and encapsulates a piece of first information specified by the specification information among the first information stored in the storage unit according to the Internet communication protocol, further encapsulates resulting data according to the communication standard, and sends resulting data to the information processing apparatus, and wherein when the request received from the information processing apparatus by the communication unit is a request specifying the second information, the controlling unit reads the specified second information from the storage unit, and sends the second information from the communication unit to the information processing apparatus according to a read/write standard for reading information from or writing information to the storage unit, and when the request received is a request generated by encapsulating specification information specifying the second information according to the Internet communication protocol and further encapsulating resulting data according to the communication standard, the controlling unit decapsulates the request to extract the specification information, attaches a command for allowing the information processing apparatus to control the storage terminal as a peripheral device to a piece of second information specified by the specification information among the second information stored in the storage unit, encapsulates resulting data according to the read/write standard for reading information from or writing information to the storage unit, and sends resulting data to the information processing apparatus.