Facsimile apparatus having a function of archiving an image data into an external device through a network
AssigneeMurata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasashi Eguchi, Yoshifumi Tanimoto
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Abstract
A facsimile apparatus includes an e-mail creation unit that creates an email including image data transmitted or received by facsimile or via an Internet, and a setting information specification unit that specifies archive setting information based on a communication type when transmitting or receiving image data. An archive unit archives the created e-mail after transmitting to a predetermined e-mail address for archiving based on the specified archive setting information.
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A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- an e-mail creation unit that creates an email including image data transmitted or received by facsimile or via an Internet;
- a setting information specification unit that specifies archive setting information based on a communication type when transmitting or receiving image data;
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- an archive unit that transmits the created e-mail to a predetermined e-mail address for archiving based on the specified archive setting information.
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- an e-mail creation unit that creates an e-mail including image data transmitted or received by facsimile or via an Internet;
- a message description unit that describes a message in a predetermined area in an e-mail to be archived;
- a message specification unit that specifies the content of a message based on a communication type of the transmitted or received image data;
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- an archive unit that transmits e-mails to be archived to an e-mail address for archiving based on the content of a message from the message specification unit.
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- an e-mail creation unit that creates e-mail attached image data transmitted or received by facsimile or via an Internet;
- an archive unit that transmits e-mails created in the e-mail creation unit to a predetermined e-mail address for archiving;
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- a control unit that prevents transmitted or received image data from being archived when the image data is transmitted or received using a secured function.
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- an archive specification unit that instructs to transmit image data to an e-mail address for archiving when transmitting the image data;
- a control unit that determines to archive transmission image data based on an instruction from the specification unit;
- an e-mail creation unit that creates an e-mail including image data transmitted by facsimile or via an Internet;
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- an archive unit that archives the created e-mail by transmitting to a predetermined e-mail address for archiving.
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- a transmission unit that transmits essentially the same image data to broadcasting destinations by facsimile or via an Internet;
- an e-mail creation unit that creates an e-mail including one of the image data transmitted by the transmission unit;
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- an archive unit that transmits the e-mail created in the e-mail creation unit to an e-mail address for archiving.
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- a transmission unit that transmits a plurality of image data all at once by facsimile or via an Internet;
- an e-mail creation unit that creates one e-mail including a plurality of image data transmitted all at once for archiving;
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- an archive unit that transmits the e-mail created in the e-mail creation unit based on an e-mail address for archiving.
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- means for creating an e-mail including image data transmitted or received by facsimile or via an Internet;
- means for specifying archive setting information based on a communication type when transmitting or receiving image data;
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- means for archiving the created e-mail after transmitting to a predetermined e-mail address for archiving based on the specified archive setting information.
A method for archiving image data, comprising:
- specifying archive setting information based on a communication type when transmitting or receiving image data;
- creating an e-mail including image data transmitted or received by facsimile or via an Internet;
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- archiving the created e-mail after transmitting to a predetermined e-mail address for archiving based on the specified archive setting information
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.