Patent ID: 6625645
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A communications apparatus for providing communication between a client system and an electronic communications network (ECN), the client system having a plurality of communications settings and the client system running client software for managing the communications between the client system and the ECN, the apparatus comprising:a determiner for determining if communications settings are properly set in the client system for communication between the client system and the ECN; a memory for storing at least a first communications setting in the client system when the communications settings are not properly set; a requestor for requesting at least the first communications setting from an external server system via an access port and for receiving a new value of at least the first communications setting from the external server system via the access port; a changer for changing at least the first communications setting in the client system when the communications settings are not properly set.