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Apparatus control method and device

  • US 20030093469A1
  • Filed: 10/09/2002
  • Published: 05/15/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for control of an apparatus which controls the operation of an apparatus based on a request from a browser and/or responds to the browser from a server relating to the state of the apparatus through a network using a predetermined communication protocol, said method for control of an apparatus including:

  • having said server prepare by a frame structure a higher page forming a burial origin for a page of a desired layout to be displayed by the above browser programmed by a programming language of a Web page, having said server set a dummy frame of a region zero not containing content in the prepared frame, having said server set a desired page having a means for controlling said apparatus and/or making a request relating to the state of the apparatus to be displayed in a remaining region other than the dummy frame, having said server set a response frame for responding to a request from said browser and updating the frame in said dummy frame, and having said browser display processing results based on a response from said server to a request from said browser according to the setting in the server and not appear to update the inside of the frame.

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