E-mail printer and e-mail printing method having authentication procedure
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-hoon Kim, Sang-yong Han
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Abstract
An e-mail printer having an authentication procedure includes an e-mail receiving unit that includes a storage device to store e-mail which is received in a predetermined memory area allocated to each user and an authentication device to authenticate the user so that the user accesses the storage device.
Claims28
A printer having an e-mail receiving function comprising:
- a storage device to store received e-mail in a predetermined one of memory areas corresponding to each of a plurality of users;
- an authentication device to authenticate the plurality of users so that the authenticated ones of the users are enabled to access said storage device;
- and
- a printer unit to print the received e-mail.
A method of storing e-mail in a printer having an e-mail receiving function, comprising:
- receiving e-mails sent to each of a plurality of users from mail servers in order of accessing time;
- and
- storing the received e-mails in corresponding predetermined memory areas of the printer allocated to the plurality of users.
A method of storing e-mail in a printer having an e-mail receiving function, comprising:
- receiving at the printer e-mails from each of a plurality of user accounts;
- and
- storing the received e-mails in predetermined memory areas of the printer corresponding to each of the plurality of user accounts.
A method of confirming e-mail stored in a printer having an e-mail receiving function, comprising:
- receiving e-mails sent to each of a plurality of users from each of a plurality of mail servers in order of accessing time;
- storing the received e-mails in corresponding memory areas of the printer allocated to each of the users;
- and
- confirming the stored e-mail according to one of the users' selection after authentication of the one user.
A method of confirming e-mail stored in a printer having an e-mail receiving function, the method comprising:
- receiving e-mails from each of a plurality of user accounts at the printer;
- storing the received e-mails in corresponding memory areas of the printer allocated to each of the user accounts;
- authenticating a user;
- and
- confirming the stored e-mails according to the authenticated user's selection.
A printer having an e-mail receiving function comprising:
- an e-mail receiving unit to receive e-mail sent to a receiving user;
- a storage device having storage areas, said storage device to store the received e-mail in one of the storage areas which corresponds to the receiving user;
- and
- a printer unit to print the stored e-mail at a print command of the receiving user.
A computer readable medium encoded with processing instructions for implementing a method of retrieving and printing e-mails performed by a computer in a printer, the method comprising:
- accessing a mail server to retrieve e-mail to a user;
- retrieving the e-mail sent to the user;
- storing the retrieved e-mail in a storage area of a storage medium in the printer;
- and
- at a command from the user, printing and/or displaying the stored e-mail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.