Image forming system
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKaori Ogura
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Abstract
Electronic mail is sent from an external device to an image forming apparatus to call for updating of the data stored in a memory of the image forming apparatus. Upon reception of the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus downloads updating data from a device on a network on the basis of the contents of the electronic mail. Based on the downloaded updating data, the image forming apparatus executes updating processing for the data stored in the memory.
Claims21
A data updating method for updating data stored in a memory of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- sending electronic mail from an external device to the image forming apparatus to call for updating of the data stored in the memory of the image forming apparatus;
- downloading updating data from a device on a network based on contents of the electronic mail when the electronic mail from the external device has been received by the image forming apparatus;
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- executing updating processing for the data stored in the memory, based on the downloaded updating data.
An image forming apparatus which stores data in a memory beforehand and comprises:
- a network interface which receives from an external device electronic mail calling for updating of the data stored in the memory and through which updating data is downloaded from a device on a network based on contents of the electronic mail in response to the reception of the electronic mail;
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- a CPU which executes updating processing for the data stored in the memory based on the updating data downloaded by the network interface.
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus which stores data in a memory thereof beforehand;
- and an external device capable of exchanging electronic mail with the image forming apparatus,
- said external device including a modem which sends electronic mail to the image forming apparatus to call for updating of the data stored in the memory of the image forming apparatus, and
- said image forming apparatus includes:
- a network interface through which updating data is downloaded from a device on a network based on contents of the electronic mail in response to the reception of that electronic mail;
- and a CPU which executes updating processing for the data stored in the memory based on the updating data downloaded by the network interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.