Patent ID: 8014503

Claim:
A network system comprising: a function execution apparatus that executes a predetermined function; and a notifying apparatus connected via a local area network to the function execution apparatus, wherein the function execution apparatus comprises: a broadcast transmitting unit configured to broadcast a search signal to the local area network to communicate with the notifying apparatus; a notifiable information communication unit that receives notifiable information transmitted from the notifying apparatus, the notifiable information indicating that the notifying apparatus is under notifiable state; an event detecting unit that detects an event occurred in the function execution apparatus; and a specific information transmitting unit that transmits, if the event is detected by the detecting unit, specific information capable of specifying the occurrence of the event directly to the notifying apparatus that transmits the notifiable information, and wherein the notifying apparatus comprises: a notifying apparatus-sided transmitting unit that transmits notifiable information to the function execution apparatus; a notifying apparatus-sided receiving unit that receives specific information transmitted from the function execution apparatus; a notifying unit capable of notifying the occurrence of the event in the function execution apparatus; and a notification control unit that causes the notifying unit, if the notifying apparatus-sided receiving unit receives the specification information, to notify the occurrence of the event specified by specific information.