Patent ID: 7168043

Claim:
At least one communication apparatus connected to any of server-side communication terminals and client-side communication terminals or a communication line in a communication system in which said server-side communication terminals and said client-side communication terminals are connected through the communication line, comprising: an input information interpreting unit, a processing implementation unit and a processing method definition memory unit; said input information interpreting unit referring to a processing method defined in said processing method definition memory unit and interpreting character-string information received from said server-side communication terminal, said client-side communication terminal or another communication apparatus; said processing implementation unit processing said character-string information in accordance with the processing method defined in said processing method definition memory unit, and transmitting and receiving control information or management information from another communication equipment or a communication terminal in said communication system, wherein said processing implementation unit includes a World Wide Web (WWW) access distribution function for distributing accesses to the server-side communication terminals, wherein said processing implementation unit is arranged to perform setting-up said communication apparatus relating to communication performance, processing of a database for registering or referring to user information, and distributing accesses from the client-side communication terminals to the server-side communication terminals.