Patent ID: 7231432

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a server on an Internet; an input unit that inputs a first address data to the communicating unit, wherein the communicating unit transmits a request data to the server when the first address data was input to the communicating unit, the request data requesting the server to transmit a web data corresponding to the first address data, and the communicating unit receives the web data corresponding to the first address data from the server; an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium based on the web data; a determining unit that determines whether the web data received by the communicating unit is a network data, the network data including at least one set of second address data; a first memory that includes a shortcut database that stores a third address data in association with a third corresponding operation data; and an update unit that updates the shortcut database; and a control unit that controls the image forming unit and the update unit, wherein the control unit controls, when the web data is determined to be the network data, the update unit updating the shortcut database by storing the at least one set of second address data included in the network data into the shortcut database in association with a second corresponding operation data, and the control unit controls, when the web data is determined not to be the network data, the image forming unit forming images on a recording medium based on the web data.