Patent 7493385 was granted and assigned to ARKRAY on February, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A maker of a measuring device provides, on a client support system, a WWW server for providing the operation manual of the measuring device in an HTML format, and an ordered article control server for performing a supply control on the expendables of a measuring device. The measuring device has a browsing function, and a monitor unit monitors the status of a control unit to display a proper page in the operation manual on a monitor by requesting a transfer of a URL to the WWW server (24) according to the status of the control unit at that time. Ordering of expendables is possible by means of an ordering screen incorporated in the operation manual.