Patent ID: 6868455

Claim:
A server to which an operating client and a peripheral apparatus to be operated by said operating client are connected, said server functioning as a peripheral server with which the operating client operates the peripheral apparatus, the server comprising: an instruction information storing port which stores a set of operating instructions to be used by said client apparatus to operate the peripheral apparatus via the server: an instruction information send part which reads said set of operating instructions from said instruction information storing part in response to a request from said operating client and in further response sends said set of operating instructions to aid operating client, where the request is sent by the operating client in automatic response to an operating command, at the operating client, to operate the peripheral apparatus; a client communicating part which sends said set of operating instructions to said operating client and which receives from the lent command instructions for the operating command and made with the sent set of operating instructions; and a peripheral communicating part which sends the command instructions received from said operating client via said communicating part to said peripheral apparatus and receives from said peripheral apparatus processing results of said peripheral apparatus performing the command instructions; wherein said client communicating send part sends the processing results received from said peripheral apparatus to said operating client.