Communication device connected to a local area network and wide area network and method thereof
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuma Aoki, Yuji Sato
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Abstract
A communication device is connected with a wide area network (WAN) and a local area network (LAN) and includes a recording unit that performs predetermined processing in accordance with a request, that comes in through the WAN or the LAN. A controller of a communication module of the communication device determines whether a request came in through the WAN or the LAN. When the request comes in through the WAN, the controller demands an acceptance/rejection determination as to the performance of the request from a user of the communication device. When the performance of the requested operation is accepted, the controller performs the processing according to the request that came in through the WAN.
Claims20
A communication device connected with a wide area network (WAN) and a local area network (LAN), comprising:
- a controller that:
- determines whether a request to perform predetermined processing came in from the WAN or the LAN;
- allows a user of the communication device to determine whether an operation according to the request is accepted or rejected when it is determined that the request came in from the WAN;
- and
- allows the predetermined processing to be performed according to the request when a performance of the operation according to the request is accepted.
A method of communicating with a wide area network (WAN) and a local area network (LAN) connected to a communication device, comprising:
- determining whether a request to perform predetermined processing came in from the WAN or the LAN;
- allowing a user of the communication device to determine whether an operation according to the request is accepted or rejected when it is determined that the request came in from the WAN;
- and
- allowing the predetermined processing to be performed according to the request when a performance of the operation according to the request is accepted.
A communication device connected with a wide area network (WAN) and a local area network (LAN), comprising:
- a controller that:
- automatically performs predetermined processing according to a request when a performance of an operation is requested by a LAN;
- allows a user of the communication device to determine whether an operation according to the request is accepted or rejected when it is determined that the request came in from the WAN;
- and
- performs predetermined processing according to a request from the WAN when a performance of the operation according to the request is accepted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.