Patent ID: 8234353

Claim:
A firmware providing method in which firmware for an electronic device is downloaded from a service server provided on a communication network to a communication terminal, wherein: display information to be displayed on a display of the electronic device is stored in the service server as language standard data that responds to a plurality of languages in accordance with a model of the electronic device; the communication terminal includes a user interface program including a web browser connected to the service server via the Internet that downloads, from among the language standard data, data in which a model of the electronic device and a language are specified; the communication terminal then edits by rewriting at least a portion of the language standard data itself; the communication terminal then transmits the edited display information to the service server; and in response thereto, the service server generates firmware for the electronic device of the same model based on the edited display information, and then returns the firmware to a return target terminal, wherein based on the display information returned from the communication terminal, the service server generates a simulator by which a simulation display of the display information is executed; and the simulator is downloaded to the return target terminal.