Network system

Abstract

To provide a technique that allows a search terminal having affiliation information to refer to an information appliance in which the same affiliation information is not included in record information.SOLUTION: A network system 10 comprises a recording unit 24 and a processor 22. The processor 22 executes a responding operation of, when receiving, from a search terminal, an inquiry about an information appliance that can be used by the search terminal, extracting, from the recording unit 24, address information of an information appliance having the same first affiliate information as that of the search terminal and responding with the address information, and a complementation operation of, for a first information appliance in which recorded information lacks the first affiliate information, on the basis of recorded information of a second information appliance having the same second affiliate information as that of the first information appliance, complements the recorded information of the first information appliance with the first affiliate information. In the responding operation, the processor extracts the address information of the information appliance having the same first affiliate information and responds with the address information on the basis of information on the recording unit 24 for which a result of complementation through the complementation operation is reflected.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1