Patent ID: 8504612

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus coupled to a network; and a terminal apparatus coupled to the network, wherein the terminal apparatus comprises: a terminal-side web browser configured to transmit a request for first screen data to a web server of the image forming apparatus, receive the first screen data, and cause an operation screen to be displayed on a display of the terminal apparatus on the basis of the received first screen data; and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises: a converting unit configured to generate HyperText Markup Language (HTML) data of the first screen data and second screen data, wherein the first screen data and the second screen data are generated from basic screen data described in a markup language; the web server configured to (i) transmit the first screen data for use by the terminal apparatus in response to the request for the first screen data from the terminal apparatus and (ii) transmit the second screen data for use by the image forming apparatus in response to a request for the second screen data from a web browser, wherein the first screen data is different from the second screen data; and the web browser configured to transmit the request for the second screen data to the web server, receive the second screen data, and cause an operation screen to be displayed on a display of the image forming apparatus on the basis of the received second screen data, wherein the first screen data and the second screen data include the HTML data and a cascading style sheet applied to the HTML data, and wherein the converting unit generates HTML data of the first screen data that refers to the cascading style sheet of the first screen data and HTML data of the second screen data that refers to the cascading style sheet of the second screen data.