Patent ID: 7698404

Claim:
A status information notification system including a network terminal device and a communication processing device that enables the network terminal device to communicate with another terminal device though a communication network, wherein the network terminal device comprises: a terminal controlling system that controls processing of functional units provided to the network terminal device and outputs status information representing operational status of the network terminal device; and a sleeping system that lowers a power consumption of the terminal controlling system when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and wherein the communication processing device comprises: a storing system that stores the status information outputted by the terminal controlling system when the predetermined condition is satisfied; a determining system that determines whether the terminal controlling system is in a sleep status; an examining system that examines whether a request for the status information is received from the another terminal device; and a communication controlling system that obtains the status information from one of the storing system and the terminal controlling system, and transmits the obtained status information to the communication network, wherein; the communication controlling system obtains the status information from the storing system when the determining system determines that the terminal controlling system is in the sleep status, and outputs the status information to the communication network, the communication controlling system obtains the status information from the terminal controlling system when the determining system determines that the terminal controlling system is not in the sleep status, and transmits the status information to the communication network, the communications processing device is an internal component of the network terminal device, the storing system includes a common storage that is accessible from both the terminal controlling system and the communication controlling system, and the sleeping system sets the terminal controlling system in the sleep status when the predetermined condition is satisfied and the terminal controlling system has completed outputting the status information to the common storage.