US 2010/0245903 A1Published application

Communication system, communication device and peripheral device

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorShinichi SAKAKIBARA

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Abstract

A communication system including a communication box connected to a public communication line and capable of data communication with a child unit through a digital cordless (DCL) wave and with a multi-function device through a wires LAN (WLAN) wave, and wherein each of the child unit and multi-function device has a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion for optical communication between the child unit and multi-function device. The communication box and multi-function device have respective WLAN communication control portions which are normally placed in a non-operating state, and when the communication box receives facsimile data from the public communication line, the communication box commands the child unit to require the multi-function device to start its WLAN communication control portion, starts its own WLAN communication control portion, and transmit the facsimile data to the multi-function device through the WLAN wave.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A communication system comprising:

a primary communication device having a first communicating portion configured to effect wireless communication in a first communication mode, and a second communicating portion configured to effect wireless communication in a second communication mode different from the first communication mode;
a first auxiliary communication device having a first auxiliary communicating portion configured to effect communication with the first communicating portion of the primary communication device in the first communication mode;
and a second auxiliary communication device having a second auxiliary communicating portion configured to effect communication with the second communicating portion of the primary communication device in the second communication mode,
wherein the first auxiliary communication device further has a third auxiliary communicating portion configured to effect the communication with the second auxiliary communication device in a third communication mode different from the first communication mode and the second communication mode,
the second auxiliary communication device further having a fourth auxiliary communicating portion configured to effect the communication with the third auxiliary communicating portion in the third communication mode,
at least one of the primary communication device and the second auxiliary communication device further having a first control portion configured such that when said one communication device is commanded to effect the communication with the other communication device in the second communication mode, the first control portion transmits to the other communication device a request to start the communicating portion of the other communication device, in the first communication mode and the third communication mode, starts the communicating portion of said one communication device to effect the communication in the second communication mode, and stops an operation of the communicating portion of said one communication device in the second communication mode after the communication with the other communication device in the second communication mode is terminated,
and wherein said other communication device further has a second control portion configured such that when the other communication device receives the request to start its communicating portion from said one communication device, in the first and third communication modes, the second control portion starts the communicating portion of the other communication device to effect the communication in the second communication mode, and stops an operation of the communicating portion of said other communication device in the second communication mode after the communication with said one communication device in the second communication mode is terminated.

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A communication device comprising a first communicating portion configured to effect communication with a first auxiliary communication device in a first communication mode, and a second communicating portion configured to effect communication with a second auxiliary communication device in a second communication mode different from the first communication mode, the first auxiliary communicating device being configured to transmit to the second auxiliary communication device a signal based on predetermined data received from the communicating device, the communication device further comprising:

a start requesting portion configured to command the first communicating portion to transmit, as the predetermined data, a start request to enable the second auxiliary communication device to effect the communication device in the second communication mode when the communication device is commanded to effect the communication with the second auxiliary communication device;
a first starting portion configured to start the second communicating portion when the communication device is commanded to effect the communication with the second auxiliary communication device;
and
a first stopping portion configured to stop an operation of the second communicating portion when the communication of the second communicating portion with the second auxiliary communication device is terminated after the second communicating portion is started by the first starting portion.

1 more element

A communication device configured to effect communication with a primary communication device, and an auxiliary communication device configured to effect wireless communication with the primary communication device in a first communication mode, the auxiliary communication device configured to transmit to the primary communication device data based on a predetermined signal received from the communication device, the communication device comprising:

a communicating portion configured to effect wireless communication with the primary communication device in a second communication mode different from the first communication mode;
a signal transmitting/receiving portion configured to transmit a signal to and from the auxiliary communication device;
a start request commanding portion configured to command the signal transmitting/receiving portion to transmit, as the predetermined signal, a start request to enable the primary communication device to effect the wireless communication with the communicating portion in the second communication mode when the communication device is commanded to effect the communication with the primary communication device;
a first starting portion configured to start the communicating portion when the communication device is commanded to effect the communication with the primary communication device in the second communication mode;
and
a first stopping portion configured to stop an operation of the communicating portion when the data communication of the communicating portion with the primary communication device is terminated after the communicating portion is started by the first starting portion.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/725,911Filed 17 Mar 2010
Priority: JP 2009-08437131 Mar 2009
Published: 30 Sep 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04N 1/00214
Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax: details of…
H04N 1/0022
Details of transmission: involving facsimile protocols or a combination of facsimile protocols and computer data transmission protocols
H04N 1/0049
Output means: providing a visual indication to the user, e.g. using a lamp
H04N 1/324
Using picture signal storage, e.g. at transmitter: intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange

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