Patent ID: 7583676

Claim:
A communication method for a plurality of information apparatuses, comprising: acquiring function index information and information index information which are associated with processes which are executable on each of a plurality of information apparatuses connected to a network to transmit the information among them, through the network, the information index information being stored in each of the information apparatuses through the network and relating to data held in the information apparatuses, and the each of the information apparatuses informing another of the information apparatuses of a way for controlling the another of the information apparatuses; presenting the function index information and the information index information which are acquired in the acquiring; and allowing a user to link given data and a given process on the basis of the function index information and the information index information presented in the presenting, and when the given data and the given process are linked together by the user on the basis of the function index information and the information index information presented in the presenting, transmitting the given data from one of the information apparatuses which holds the given data to another of the information apparatuses which executes the process linked with the data through the network.