Patent ID: 8261291
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A network apparatus connected to at least one terminal apparatus via a network, the network apparatus comprising: hardware unique to the network apparatus and internal to the network apparatus; an interface configured to communicate with the terminal apparatus by using the same protocol as the terminal apparatus; and a document reader, wherein the interface is configured to receive an operation instruction to operate the hardware unique to the network apparatus, the operation instruction being issued by one of various types of software executed in the terminal apparatus and to instruct the hardware to operate in accordance with the received operation instruction, to receive a read instruction to operate the document reader, the read instruction to operate the document reader being issued by one of the various types of software executed in the terminal apparatus, to instruct the document reader to read a document in accordance with the received read instruction, to receive a state obtaining instruction to obtain a state of the document reader, the state obtaining instruction to obtain the state being issued by one of the various types of software executed in the terminal apparatus, to obtain the state of the document reader in accordance with the received state obtaining instruction, and to report the state of the document reader in response to the received state obtaining instruction, wherein the terminal apparatus is provided separately from the hardware, and wherein the interface is configured to communicate with the terminal apparatus using a REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture to control data using only an obtaining method defined by HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).