Patent ID: 7269637

Claim:
A service provision method for service provision from a server connected with clients via a network, comprising: judging whether said server is accessible by comparing an access number and a submitted access number in response to an access request from a first client among said clients to said server, said access number being incremented and being issued responsive to each request to said server and being unique for said request and said submitted access number being incremented responsive to each completion of providing a service from the said server; immediately connecting said first client with said server when the server is judged accessible; suspending an access request of a second client among said clients and displaying information of a number of accesses to said server on said second client, said information of the number of accesses directly or indirectly indicating a number of uncompleted requests according to said unique access number for said access request of the second client and said submitted access number, when the server is judged inaccessible; displaying an updated said information of the number of accesses that is updated at a time interval according to said submitted access number queried by said second client after displaying said information of the number of accesses; and automatically connecting said second client whose access request is suspended with said server at a time when said server becomes accessible based on a determination of accessibility by said second client, the server being accessible when said access number of said second client is less than or equal to said submitted access number after displaying said information of the number of accesses, wherein said time interval is varied according to said information of the number of accesses and the time interval is set to be longer as a number of clients in an access querying state increases.