Patent ID: 8150978

Claim:
An apparatus for managing a user interface, the apparatus comprising: a storage server comprising: a packet generation unit that generates a notification packet indicating that the storage server exists on a network; a web server that manages a store command for storing a state of a user interface of a predetermined application transmitted through the network and an extract command received as a result of distributing the notification packet; wherein the store command and the extract command are according to an input of a remote client, a state storage unit that stores the state of the user interface according to the store command; and a communication unit that transmits the state of a predetermined user interface extracted according to the extract command from the stored state of the user interface through communication with the remote client using hypertext markup language (HTML), wherein the state of the user interface comprises a state of the remote client and at least one of a state of a remote server providing the application, wherein the state of the remote client comprises at least one of a plurality of cookies of the web browser, a form input, and an audio/video object.