Patent ID: 6313926
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A computer readable program, stored in a storage medium, for controlling a server terminal in a communication system, said communication system comprising a data communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via a first line connected to an outside network, said server terminal managing a status of a user on a network, and said server terminal being connected to said data communication apparatus via a second line between said server terminal and data communication apparatus, said program comprising:a notifying step of notifying, in a case where the data communication apparatus received data from a transmission side via the first line, the user on the network of a fact that the data reception was performed; anda sending step of sending, in a case where the notification in said notifying step was performed, information corresponding to the notification, to the data communication apparatus via the second line, wherein the data communication apparatus transmits the information sent in said sending step to said transmission side via the first line.