Image communication apparatus, image communication method, and memory medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro Sugawara, Takehiro Yoshida
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Abstract
In an Internet facsimile apparatus, it is an object of the invention to provide means for notifying the user of details of a message disposition notification situation (MDN) of a transmission image. When E-mail data is sent, an MDN for E-mail to be sent is requested and communication management information of the sent E-mail is updated on the basis of a reception result of reply E-mail responsive to the MDN request.
Claims9
-43. (canceled)
An image communicating apparatus which is capable of performing E-mail communication via a network, comprising:
- a transmitting unit, constructed to send an E-mail accompanied by an image file;
- a receiving unit, constructed to receive an E-mail;
- an adding unit, constructed to add, to the sent E-mail, information for requesting a message disposition notification for the E-mail sent by the transmitting unit to a transmission destination of the sent E-mail;
- a managing unit, constructed to manage transmission management information of the sent E-mail;
- and
- a judging unit, constructed to judge failure of the sending of the sent E-mail, based on information included in the message disposition notification received by the receiving unit and indicating how the sent E-mail was managed by a receiver,
- wherein the managing unit sets information indicating the success or failure of the sending of the sent E-mail to the transmission management information, based on a judged result by the judging unit.
A control method used in an image communication apparatus which is capable of performing E-mail communication via a network, the method comprising:
- adding, to an E-mail, information for requesting a message disposition notification for the sent E-mail to a transmission destination of the sent E-mail;
- sending the E-mail to which the information for requesting the message disposition notification to the transmission destination of the sent E-mail;
- managing transmission management information of the sent E-mail;
- receiving the message disposition notification;
- judging success or failure of the sending of the sent E-mail, based on information included in the received message disposition notification and indicating how the sent E-mail was managed by a receiver;
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- setting information indicating the success or failure of the sending of the sent E-mail to the transmission management information, based on a result of the judging.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores therein a computer program to cause a computer to execute a control method used in an image communication apparatus which is capable of performing E-mail communication via a network, the method comprising:
- adding, to an E-mail, information for requesting a message disposition notification for the sent E-mail to a transmission destination of the sent E-mail;
- sending the E-mail to which the information for requesting the message disposition notification to the transmission destination of the sent E-mail;
- managing transmission management information of the sent E-mail;
- receiving the message disposition notification;
- judging success or failure of the sending of the sent E-mail, based on information included in the received message disposition notification and indicating how the sent E-mail was managed by a receiver;
- and
- setting information indicating the success or failure of the sending of the sent E-mail to the transmission management information, based on a result of the judging.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.