Patent ID: 8026928

Claim:
A method, in a server having a client connected thereto via a network, for controlling an image to be displayed on the client, comprising the steps of: in response to receiving from the client an operation command requesting an operation by the server, setting a dividing manner for dividing a display screen of the server into a plurality of sub areas, the dividing manner being set by selecting a value corresponding to said client out of candidate values of dividing manner preliminarily stored in the server; for each of the plurality of sub areas into which the display screen is divided based on the dividing manner set in the setting step, calculating a degree of change of an image displayed on the sub area before and after completion of the operation by the server in response to the operation command; generating data of an image for status display, the image for status display including an image representing relative positional relationship between the plurality of sub areas, and for each of the plurality of sub areas, an image representing the degree of change calculated for the sub area; and transmitting the data of the image for status display to the client so as to be displayed on a display portion of the client.