Patent ID: 8683029

Claim:
A computer system provided by at least one computer apparatus, comprising: a requesting unit; a Web server unit; a Web service unit; a search function setting UI (user interface) unit which provide a user interface including an item for setting whether or not a broadcast in searching for a printer, and an item for setting an IP address of a printer to be searched by unicast; and a storage unit which stores a plurality of records, each record including a date and time at which a search is to be performed, a setting indicating whether or not a broadcast is to be used in searching for a printer, the IP address to be used when a printer is to be searched by unicast, information indicating a search instruction for searching a printer, and an URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) specifying the Web service unit having a search function, all of which have been set via the user interface provided by the search function setting UI, wherein the requesting unit transmits, for each record stored in the storage unit, at a time according to a date and time at which a search is to be performed included in the record, the URI included in the record to the web server unit, wherein the web server unit, based on the URI transmit from the requesting unit, identifies the web service unit having the search function, and transmits the information indicating the search instruction for a printer to the identified web service unit, wherein the web service unit, after a reception of the information indicating the search instruction for a printer, searches a printer based on the setting that a broadcast is to be used in searching a printer or the IP address of a printer to be searched by unicast, and wherein the web server unit, the web service unit, the requesting unit, and the search function setting UI unit are embodied by CPU(s) of the at least one computer apparatus.