Patent ID: 8051379

Claim:
An image forming apparatus that communicates via a network with a management server which manages identification information of the image forming apparatus and information regarding the image forming apparatus and that has a web browser, the image forming apparatus comprising: sending means for sending a menu request including the identification information of the image forming apparatus; reception means for receiving a response to the menu request from the management server via the network; execution means for analyzing and executing, when the response to the menu request has been received by the reception means, a processing command that is included in contents of the response; generation means for generating a display file, which is generated by embedding both a part of the contents of the response to the menu request having been received by the reception means and a processing result of the processing command that has been executed by the execution means; and display means for displaying the display file generated by the generation means via the web browser, wherein, when the display file that is to be displayed by the display means is generated by the generation means, information that was held by the image forming apparatus at a time of execution of the processing command is embedded as the processing result of the processing command into the display file, and wherein, when a processing command for embedding information held by the image forming apparatus is not included in the response from the management server, the display means performs a display according to the contents of the response via the web browser without embedding information held by the image forming apparatus.