Patent ID: 7180620

Claim:
A system for providing service to an image communication terminal, said system comprising: a manager computer; a service center; and an image communication terminal connected via a network to said manager computer and to said service center, said image communication terminal including a registering part for registering an e-mail address of said manager computer, an e-mail address of said service center and identification information of said image communication terminal, and a status detecting part for detecting a status of said image communication terminal, wherein said image communication terminal transmits to said service center a first e-mail including said identification information and status of said image communication terminal and said e-mail address of said manager computer, when said service center receives said first e-mail from said image communication terminal, said service center generates a message in a home page of said manager computer, based on said first e-mail from said image communication terminal, and transmits a second e-mail, which includes a URL (uniform resource locator) of said home page, to said manager computer, and said manager computer displays said message, based on the URL of the home page included in said second e-mail.