SERVER UNIT, CLIENT UNIT, DEVICE UNIT, DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR SERVER UNIT, DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR CLIENT UNIT, DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR DEVICE UNIT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately narrow down and present a device unit capable of effectively realizing a function processing requested by the user of a retrieving client unit of a retrieval side. SOLUTION: By referring to a retrieval condition for a device 30 or the like received from a client 10 by a retrieval request reception part 22 and attribute information including attributes based on intrinsic functions and the attributes for indicating inhibited combinations with respective functions acquired from the respective device units for management, a retrieval part 24 performs retrieval. A retrieved result transmission part 21 replies the device unit for satisfying the retrieval condition and not being the attribute for indicating the inhibited combination with the respective functions to the client 10 as a retrieved result.