Patent ID: 7721316

Claim:
A television (TV) reproducing video and audio signals by receiving a broadcast signal, comprising: a storing unit for storing proper information of the TV, and contact information of a TV service site server, the proper information including a model name or a model number of the TV and the contact information comprising a URL of the TV service site server; a network interface unit for facilitating two way communications between the TV service site server and the TV; and a controlling unit for contacting the TV service site server by use of the contact information and transmitting the proper information to the TV service site server in response to a checkup key input by a user, and the controlling unit for controlling display of a service menu received from the TV service site server through the network interface unit in response to contacting the TV service site server, the service menu including a function information menu and an error checkup menu of the TV, wherein upon the user selecting the function checkup menu from the service menu, the controlling unit controls the display of the function information menu to provide information describing each function of the TV pertaining to the proper information in detail, upon the user selecting the error checkup menu from the service menu, the controlling unit transmits an error item that occurred in the TV to the TV service site server through the network interface unit and in response the TV service site server transmits a list of errors pertinent to the proper information to the TV through the network interface unit only when the TV service site server has determined the error item to be non-fatal, after receiving the list of errors from the TV service site server, upon the controlling unit determining that the error item is in the received list of errors and upon the TV service site server determining that the error item is automatically restorable, the controlling unit receives an error restoring information from the TV service site server based on the error item that occurred in the TV, wherein the controlling unit automatically restores the error item that occurred in the TV by setting data or state of the TV pertaining to the error item to a standard state based on the error restoring information, and wherein when the TV service site server determines that the error item transmitted by the controlling unit through the network interface unit after the user selected the error checkup menu is a fatal error, the TV service site server requests a repair for the fatal error to a serviceman.