Patent ID: 8880673

Claim:
An application providing system comprising: communication devices; and an address management device that manages a storage location address of resource information of a Web application, wherein the address management device includes: an address managing unit that manages identification information for identifying the communication device, a storage location address of resource information relating to a Web application to be provided to the communication device, providing timing to provide the Web application to the communication device, and a command relating to the Web application in a manner associated with one another; a timing monitoring unit that monitors whether the current timing is providing timing; and a providing unit that provides the storage location address of resource information and the command relating to a Web application associated with providing timing to the communication device associated with the providing timing when the timing monitoring unit determines that the current timing is the providing timing, and the communication device includes: a requesting unit that issues an application request for resource information of a Web application on the basis of the storage location address upon receipt of the storage location address from the address management device; a temporary storage that temporarily stores therein the resource information of the Web application provided in response to the application request; a cache synchronizing unit that synchronizes the resource information stored in the temporary storage to a cache of a Web browser; and an application executing unit that can execute the Web application on the basis of the command of the resource information stored in the cache.