Communication apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiro Haze, Tokunori Kato, Yuri Usami
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Abstract
A facsimile machine has a base unit and a plurality of handsets. The base unit receives e-mail data from a remote center, and the handsets receive e-mail data via the base unit. When one of the base unit and the handsets requests the remote center to transmit e-mail data, a CPU of the base unit allows only the one that makes the request to receive and store therein the e-mail data.
Claims27
A communication apparatus that communicates with a remote center to receive data from the remote center, the communication apparatus comprising:
- a master unit that receives the data from the remote center;
- a plurality of slave units that receive the data from the remote center, via the master unit;
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- a control circuit that controls the master unit and the plurality of slave units, wherein when one of the master unit and the plurality of slave units makes a request to the remote center for transmitting the data, only the one that makes the request is allowed to receive and store therein the data transmitted from the remote center.
A communication apparatus that communicates with a remote center to receive data from the remote center, the communication apparatus comprising:
- a master unit that receives the data from the remote center;
- a plurality of slave units that receive the data from the remote center, via the master unit;
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- a control circuit that controls the master unit and the plurality of slave units, wherein when the master unit makes a request to the remote center for transmitting the data, the control circuit prohibits the plurality of slave units from receiving and storing therein the data transmitted from the remote center, and when one of the plurality of slave units makes the request, the control circuit prohibits the master unit from storing the data transmitted from the remote center and prohibits other ones of the plurality of slave units from receiving and storing therein the data transmitted from the remote center.
A communication apparatus that communicates with a remote center to receive data from the remote center and transfers the data to a plurality of slave units, the communication apparatus comprising:
- a control circuit that controls the communication apparatus and the plurality of slave units, wherein when one of the communication apparatus and the plurality of slave units makes a request to the remote center for transmitting the data, only the one that makes the request is allowed to receive and store therein the data transmitted from the remote center.
A communication apparatus that associates with a master unit that communicates with a remote center to receive data from the remote center, and the communication apparatus that receives the data from the master unit, the communication apparatus comprising:
- a control circuit that controls the communication apparatus and the master unit, wherein when one of the communication apparatus and the master unit makes a request to the remote center for transmitting the data, only the one that makes the request is allowed to receive and store therein the data transmitted from the remote center.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.