Patent ID: 8619285

Claim:
A control method of an image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus having an embedded web server and a client device, the method comprising: connecting the client device to the image forming apparatus by a user of the client device; selecting a display item to be displayed on the client device from among a plurality of display items provided by the image forming apparatus; wherein the display item is automatically selected according to a default setting and the selected display item contains information about at least one component of the image forming apparatus; and displaying, on the client device, an executing window corresponding to the selected display item from among a plurality of executing windows respectively corresponding to the plurality of display items and stored in the web server, wherein the executing window is displayed using a web page on the client device, the web page being generated to include the executing window by the web server and transmitted to the client device; wherein the executing window display using a web page on the client device allows for the user to add a web widget corresponding to a selected display item from the plurality of display items to the executing window and to remove a web widget corresponding to a previously selected display item displayed in the executing window.