Patent ID: 7162518

Claim:
A network interface apparatus which is connected to an image processing apparatus and communicates with an external apparatus, comprising: a providing unit adapted to provide display data necessary for constructing a picture plane for displaying or setting apparatus information of the image processing apparatus to the external apparatus; holding unit adapted to hold language information indicative of a language selected by a user from among a plurality of kinds of languages; and data obtaining unit adapted to obtain the display data from the image processing apparatus if the display data necessary for constructing the picture plane depends on an apparatus type of the image processing apparatus and to obtain the display data from said network interface apparatus if the display data necessary for constructing the picture plane does not depend on the apparatus type of the image processing apparatus, wherein said data obtaining unit designates the display data based on the language information held by said holding unit to obtain the display data corresponding to the language indicated by the language information held by said holding unit from the image processing apparatus and said providing unit provides the designated display data corresponding to the language indicated by the language information held by said holding unit to the external apparatus, and wherein said providing unit provides the display data by using an HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), and wherein said data obtaining unit discriminates whether the display data is type-dependent data which depends on the apparatus type of the image processing apparatus or type-independent data which does not depend on the apparatus type of the image processing apparatus on the basis of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the requested data, obtains the display data from the image processing apparatus if the display data is the type-dependent data, and obtains the display data from said network interface apparatus if the display data is the type-independent data.