Patent ID: 7035900

Claim:
A business machine network terminal for providing services by transmitting and receiving data to/from other business machine network terminals each including a different function through a network and performing cooperative processing with the other business machine network terminals, the business machine network terminal comprising: service selecting means for selecting one of the services; processing means for performing processing necessary for the selected service; and processing information transmitting means for transmitting to an object terminal service information that is generated on the basis of the processing with the processing means, and that is necessary for managing business machine network terminals on the network, wherein the service selecting means obtains information of the other business machine network terminals connected to the network, and decides available services to be provided by the cooperative processing with other business machine network terminals, each of which is available to perform its function at the time of the selection of the service selecting means, on the basis of a list of types of business machine network terminals necessary for the services and the information of the other business machine network terminals, and selectably displays the available services, and the business machine network terminal decides processing sequence of the cooperative processing with other business machine network terminals for providing the service, when a specific service is selected by using the service selecting means, on the basis of available service information which associated with types of business machine network terminals necessary for the services and processing sequence of each business machine network terminal for the service.