Data transmitting apparatus and data receiving apparatus

Abstract

The present invention provides a data transmitter (for example, MFP (multi function peripheral)) and a data receiver (for example, computer) capable of suppressing communication traffic. When a request RQ of transmitting device information is received from a computer (a data receiver), an MFP (a data receiver) obtains device information of the MFP and generates XML data BD. A transmitting unit of the MFP transmits both the XML data BD specifying the device information itself and style data SD specifying a display format of the data information at the first transmission. At the update transmission of the device information, the transmitting unit transmits only the XML data BD out of the data BD and SD. The computer stores the style data SD transmitted at the time of the first transmission in a style data storing unit, arranges the XML data BD transmitted for updating device information by using the stored style data SD, and displays the resultant on a display unit.

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