US 10,476,934 B2Granted

System and method for forwarding a file

AssigneesCanon Information and Imaging Solutions, Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc.

InventorsJiuyuan Ge, Lance Yiuchong Leung

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include, after receiving at least a portion of a file at a computing system, obtaining information about the file at a first time. First information is stored in a data structure, the first information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the first time. Then, information about the file at a second time after the first time is obtained. Second information is stored in a memory of the computing system, the second information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the second time. It is determined whether the second information matches the first information. In response to determining that the second information matches the first information, the file is sent from the computing system to a predetermined destination. In some embodiments, the file comprises a facsimile communication.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

after receiving at a computing system and writing to one or more memories on the computing system data of a file, obtaining information indicating a size of the file at a first time based on an amount of the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time;
obtaining information indicating a size of the file at a second time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time, the second time after the first time;
determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the second time does not match the information indicating the size of the file at the first time;
obtaining information indicating a size of the file at a third time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the third time, the third time after the second time;
determining whether the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time by comparing the information indicating the size of the file at the third time with the information indicating the size of the file at the second time;
and
in response to determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time, sending, from the computing system to a destination, the file.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more memories storing executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause a computing system to:
after receiving at the computing system and writing to the one or more memories on the computing system data of a file, obtain information indicating a size of the file at a first time based on an amount of the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time;
obtain information indicating a size of the file at a second time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time, the second time after the first time;
determine that the information indicating the size of the file at the second time does not match the information indicating the size of the file at the first time;
obtain information indicating a size of the file at a third time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the third time, the third time after the second time;
determine whether the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time by comparing the information indicating the size of the file at the third time with the information indicating the size of the file at the second time;
and
in response to determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time, send, from the computing system to a destination, the file.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/978,748Filed 14 May 2018 · continuation
Priority: 13 Mar 2014
Published: US 2018/0262554 A113 Sep 2018
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04L 67/06
Protocols: specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
H04L 51/214
Monitoring or handling of messages: using selective forwarding
H04L 51/56
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: unified…
H04L 61/4557
Network directories; Name-to-address mapping: directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers

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Application14/207,631Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Mar 2014
US 2018/0262554 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Sep 2018
US 9,992,261 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0264112 A1Published application
US 10,476,934 B2This patent

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