Patent ID: 7469163

Claim:
A home server connected to a home network along with a plurality of apparatuses operated by a control terminal, comprising: a cooperative control information storing unit configured to store a plurality of cooperative control information in which a first apparatus identification information identifying a first apparatus connected to the home network, a second apparatus identification information identifying at least one of second apparatus which can operate through linkage with the first apparatus, and operation contents realized through linkage of the first apparatus and the second apparatus are associated with one another; a cooperative control information acquiring unit configured to judge whether or not there is the cooperative control information regarding an unconnected second apparatus having not been connected to the home network in reference to the plurality of cooperative control information stored in the cooperative control information storing unit; a screen information processor configured to generate a screen information including an unconnected second apparatus identification information identifying the unconnected second apparatus and the operation contents realized through linkage of the first apparatus and the unconnected second apparatus, and to transmit the generated screen information to the control terminal, if there is the cooperative control information regarding the unconnected second apparatus.