Patent ID: 7734773

Claim:
A Web system, comprising: an image forming apparatus; a communication control device connected to the image forming apparatus and including a print server function; and an information processing apparatus connected via a network and the communication control device to the image forming apparatus and configured to obtain information on the image forming apparatus in the form of Web information from the communication control device and to display the Web information in a Web browser of itself; wherein the information processing apparatus includes a Web information request unit configured to send a Web information request via the network to the communication control device to obtain the Web information, the Web information request including a language identifier indicating a language to be used to display the Web information in the Web browser; and the communication control device includes a Web information storing unit configured to store the Web information, a Web information generating unit configured to retrieve the Web formation from the Web information storing unit in response to the Web information request, generate transmission information from the retrieved Web information, extract the language identifier from the Web information request and determine whether the language indicated by the extracted language identifier is supported by the print server function of the communication control device, and a Web information sending unit configured to send the generated transmission information via the network to the information processing apparatus, wherein the Web information stored in the Web information storing unit comprises (i) an HTML file that is an information display program for displaying the information on the image forming apparatus and (ii) language-dependent files that are data representing the information on the image forming apparatus in respective languages, wherein if the language indicated by the extracted language identifier is supported by the print server function, the Web information generating unit generates a file name of the transmission information by inserting the extracted language identifier into a file name of the HTML file or one of the language-dependent files, and if the language indicated by the extracted language identifier is not supported by the print server function, the Web information generating unit generates the file name of the transmission information by inserting a predetermined default language identifier into the file name of the HTML file or one of the language-dependent files.