Patent 7299167 was granted and assigned to Yokogawa Electric on November, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A function adding system capable of adding a function irrespective of resources of a device is realized. A function adding system for adding a new function to an incorporated device has an arithmetic processing device in which a program to realize an additional function is installed, and a device which is an incorporated device for, when using the additional function, accessing the arithmetic processing device via a network, then making a request for processing of the additional function, and receiving a result of processing.