Patent ID: 7770105

Claim:
A communication apparatus for acquiring and displaying Web pages, comprising: a communication applet storing unit configured to store a communication applet, the communication applet being referenced, but not stored, on a remote Web server; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an external state and to generate a first operation information responsive to the external state; and a Web browser configured to receive a first Web page from the remote Web server and display the first Web page on a screen, and configured to download the communication applet from the communication applet storing unit and execute the communication applet when the first Web page is displayed, wherein: the first Web page includes an instruction for causing the Web browser to download the communication applet from the communication applet storing unit and an argument which is passed to the communication applet and indicates that a second Web page for display corresponds to a second operation information; the communication applet is restricted from communicating with devices external to the communication apparatus; the communication applet can only control the Web browser to replace the first Web page with the second Web pane if the first operation information received from the monitoring unit corresponds to the second operation information indicated in the first Web page.