NETWORK DEVICE, APPARATUS, METHOD OF RETRIEVING INFORMATION THEREOF AND PROGRAM THEREOF

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the need for a user to transmit (register) the information on himself or herself to a manufacturer and for the manufacturer to specially prepare an inquiry-accepting server or a membership-registering server accordingly, when announcing the fault information on an apparatus to be used.

SOLUTION: This network device 1 transmits as search words and phrases the device information specifying the network device 1 itself at predetermined intervals by a search means 4 to a search web on the Internet and receives the results (the number of search hits) of the Internet search by the search web. A detection means 10 detects that the number of search hits gets equal to or more than a predetermined value or that the increase of the number of search hits gets equal to or more than a predetermined value and notifies it to a user.

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