Electric device capabel of being controlled based on data transmitted from cellular phone
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkihiro Furukawa, Koshi Fukazawa, Kiyotaka Ohara, Masaaki Hibino, Hideki Nogawa
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Abstract
An electric device includes a read only memory (ROM) storing a condition setting program which sets operation conditions and the like of the electric device in accordance with data. When a user changes the operation conditions and the like of the electric device, the user access a homepage of the electric device from his or her own cellular phone, inputs necessary information and command through the cellular phone. When the electric device receives the command, the condition setting program sets the operation conditions in accordance with the received command.
Claims26
An electric device communicable with a cellular phone, comprising:
- a control unit that executes operations based on control data transmitted from the cellular phone.
An image forming device comprising:
- a receiving unit that receives data from an external device by means other than e-mail, the data including an e-mail address;
- a detecting unit that detects an e-mail address from the data;
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- an output unit that outputs an e-mail message to the e-mail address.
A system comprising:
- a print data generating unit including:
- a generating unit that generates print data including document data and command data, the command data including an e-mail address;
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- a communication unit that transmits the print data by means other than e-mail;
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- an image forming unit including:
- a receiving unit that receives the print data from the print data generating unit;
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- a detecting unit that detects the e-mail address from the command data.
A control method of controlling an electric device, comprising the steps of:
- receiving data transmitted from a cellular phone;
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- controlling a control unit of the electric device in accordance with the received data.
A control method of controlling an image forming device, comprising the steps of:
- a) receiving print data from an external device;
- b) storing the print data in a memory;
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- c) executing printing of the print data when a predetermined password is received from a cellular phone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.