Patent ID: 8103717

Claim:
A terminal apparatus having a communication device communicating with a server apparatus via a network and an execution device executing an execution instruction, the terminal apparatus comprising: a computer processor programmed to implement: an inquiry sending unit for sending an instruction inquiry to inquire about existence/absence of the execution instruction, in a form of an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request, to the server apparatus using the communication device; a response receiving unit for receiving a response to the instruction inquiry sent by the inquiry sending unit as an instruction response, in a form of an HTTP response to the HTTP request which is the instruction inquiry, from the server apparatus using the communication device; an instruction executing unit for executing the execution instruction using the execution device when the instruction response received by the response receiving unit has contents showing that the execution instruction exists; and a result sending unit for sending a result of the execution instruction executed by the instruction executing unit as an executed result, in the form of the HTTP request, to the server apparatus using the communication device, wherein the response receiving unit further receives existence/absence of another execution instruction to be executed by the execution device as the instruction response, in the form of the HTTP response to the HTTP request which is the executed result sent by the result sending unit, from the server apparatus using the communication device.