Communication system, peripheral device, and computer usable medium therefor
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasafumi Miyazawa
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Abstract
A communication system, comprising at least one peripheral device having a plurality of interfaces and a host computer which is capable of communicating with the at least one peripheral device through any one of the plurality of the interfaces is provided. The at least one peripheral device comprises a storing system and a configuration information transmission system. The host computer comprises a configuration information reception system and a setting screen display system. The communication system further comprises a screen display controlling system.
Claims17
A communication system, comprising:
- at least one peripheral device having a plurality of interfaces;
- and
- a host computer which is capable of communicating with the at least one peripheral device through any one of the plurality of the interfaces,
- wherein the at least one peripheral device comprises:
- a storing system to store configuration information which determines an operation of each of the interfaces;
- and
- a configuration information transmission system to transmit the configuration information of each of the interfaces stored in the storing system to the host computer through any one of the plurality of the interfaces which are capable of communicating with the host computer,
- wherein the host computer comprises:
- a configuration information reception system to receive the configuration information of each of the interfaces transmitted by an operation from the configuration information transmission system from the at least one of the peripheral device;
- and
- a setting screen display system to display a setting screen with the configuration information in the storing system being indicated therein on an interface basis according to the configuration information received by the configuration information reception system.
A peripheral device, comprising:
- a plurality of interfaces for communicating with a host computer;
- a storing system to store configuration information which determines an operation of each of the interfaces;
- and
- configuration information transmission system to transmit the configuration information of one of the plurality of interfaces to the host computer issuing a request signal for the configuration information through one of the plurality of interfaces when the request signal for the configuration information from the host computer is received through one of the plurality of interfaces while the configuration information for each of the plurality of interfaces is stored in the storing system.
A computer usable medium comprising computer readable instructions for controlling a computer having a plurality of interfaces for communicating with an external device and a storing system to store configuration information which determines an operation of each of the interfaces to execute steps of:
- transmitting the configuration information of one of the plurality of interfaces to the external device issuing a request signal for the configuration information through one of the plurality of interfaces when the request signal for the configuration information from the external device is received through one of the plurality of interfaces while the configuration information for each of the plurality of interfaces is stored in the storing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.