Communication system, relay device, and recording medium
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorHirotaka KAWABATA
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Abstract
A communication system includes a client device that does not include facsimile transmission functions, and a relay device. The relay device is communicably connected to the client device via a private network while also being communicably connected to an external device via a public network, includes facsimile transceiving functions that transmit and receive facsimiles via a public network line associated with the client device, and in response to facsimile transmission instructions for image information received from the client device via the private network, transmits to the external device a facsimile of the image information with added information on the public network line associated with the private network.
Claims12
A communication system comprising:
- a client device that does not include facsimile transmission functions;
- and
- a relay device that is communicably connected to the client device via a private network while also being communicably connected to an external device via a public network, includes facsimile transceiving functions that transmit and receive facsimiles via a public network line associated with the client device, and in response to facsimile transmission instructions for image information received from the client device via the private network, transmits to the external device a facsimile of the image information with added information on the public network line associated with the private network.
A relay device comprising:
- a communication unit that communicates with a client device via a private network;
- a facsimile communication unit, communicably connected to an external device via a public network, that transmits and receives facsimiles via a public network line associated with the client device;
- and
- a receiving unit that receives facsimile transmission instructions for image information from the client device via the private network;
- wherein the facsimile communication unit transmits to the external device a facsimile of the image information with added information on the public network line associated with the private network in response to the facsimile transmission instructions received by the receiving unit.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for transmitting and receiving facsimiles, the process comprising:
- communicating with a client device via a private network;
- transmitting and receiving facsimiles to and from an external device communicably connected via a public network, via a public network line associated with the client device;
- and
- receiving facsimile transmission instructions for image information from the client device via the private network;
- wherein a facsimile of the image information with added information on the public network line associated with the private network is transmitted to the external device in response to the received facsimile transmission instructions received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.