Patent ID: 7840910

Claim:
A method of managing a client information processing apparatus displaying a menu screen in which selected ones of a plurality of menus are arranged, the information processing apparatus comprising a display unit, an image data storage unit, an information recording unit, and a control unit, said method comprising the steps of: storing image data of each of said plurality of menus in the image data storage unit; creating menu display information, said menu display information determined by a selected arrangement of a selected subset of said plurality of menus; recording the menu display information in the information recording unit; and displaying the menu screen under control of the control unit, responsive to the stored image data and the recorded menu display information, wherein, changing the recorded menu display information changes at least the order of arranging the menus displayed on the menu screen; the step of creating menu display information comprises processing the menu display information in a host apparatus installed at a distant place, and the step of recording the menu display information includes the steps of transferring the menu display information from the host apparatus to the client information processing apparatus through a communication means before the menu display information is recorded in the information recording unit.