Service providing system and device for receiving service

摘要

A system for providing a service from a service-providing device to a client device is provided. In the system, the service-providing device includes a database, a registering unit, a providing unit, a service end judging unit, and a service terminating unit. The client device includes a usage registration unit that transmits the registration request signal to the service-providing device if a user input requesting a usage registration for a service to be received is received through an operation unit of the client device, obtains from a user the setting information relating to the service to be received, and transmits the setting information obtained from the user to the service-providing device, a setting information storing unit that copies the setting information, which the usage registration unit transmits to the service-providing device, to save the setting information in a storage unit of the client device, a function executing unit that executes a predetermined function relating to the service provided from the service-providing device and caused by an operation of the usage registration unit, a detecting unit that detects a service terminated by the service-providing device, from among services for which the usage registration has been made through the usage registration unit, and a re-registration unit that reads out the setting information corresponding to the terminated service from the memory if the terminated service is detected by the detecting unit, and transmits the setting information along with the registration request signal to the service-providing device to make a usage registration for the terminated service.