Patent ID: 7457839

Claim:
An embedded apparatus, comprising: an access executing unit configured to execute an access to parameters of an option application in response to an access request received from a user terminal through a network; a monitoring unit configured to periodically monitor an existence of the option application; an acceptance rejecting unit configured to reject an acceptance of the access request and disable the access executing unit to access the parameters of the option application when the monitoring unit determines that the option application does not exist when the access request is received; a Web page providing unit configured to generate a Web page showing an execution result of the access executing unit and provide the Web page to an access request originator; an error response sending unit configured to send an error response to the access request originator; a central processing unit configured to control the embedded apparatus: and a setting information maintaining unit configured to maintain the parameters of the option application within the embedded apparatus, wherein the option application is stored on a recording medium configured to be detachable from the embedded apparatus, the embedded apparatus is configured to enable and disable an operation of the option application while the embedded apparatus is operating, the access executing unit is configured to process the access to the parameters of the option application and an access to a Web application residing in the embedded apparatus in common, the Web page providing unit is configured to generate the Web page showing the execution result of the parameters of the option application, the acceptance rejecting unit is configured to execute the error response sending unit when an acceptance of the access request is rejected, and the error response is a response to inform the originator of the access request that a Web page corresponding to the access request does not exist.