Patent ID: 7290177

Claim:
A network communication terminal apparatus that is adapted to exchange data with a counterpart apparatus via a network, and output an indication of an error occurrence that is to be recognized by a user when one or more of a plurality of types of errors relating to a network communication operation occur, the network communication terminal apparatus comprising: an error group/threshold occurrence number setting unit for dividing the types of errors into a plurality or error groups by categorically grouping the types of errors and setting and storing, for each group of the error groups, a successive occurrence threshold number corresponding to a number of times one or more types of errors belonging to the error group are to occur successively before an indication of an error occurrence of the error group is output; an error/occurrence number counting unit for counting, for each type of error, the number of successive occurrences of the type of error; and an error group occurrence output unit for outputting an indication of the error occurrence of a specified error group in a case where the successive occurrence number of each error group counted by the error/occurrence number counting unit, and the threshold occurrence number of each error group set by the error/threshold occurrence number setting unit are compared to find that the successive occurrence number of the specified error group is equal to the threshold occurrence number of the specified error group, wherein when an error of one error type of the plurality of types of errors occurs, the successive occurrence number of said one error type is incremented, and the successive occurrence numbers of remaining ones of the plurality of types of errors are reset.