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US 4,733,303 AGranted
Facsimile apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakaho Koshiishi
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Abstract
A facsimile apparatus for shortening a period of time necessary for setting up a transmission modem rate set-up and, thereby, a period of time for which it occupies a line is disclosed. Every time the apparatus transmits video data to a remote apparatus, or destination, it stores a modem rate set up then. Later on, when the apparatus is to transmit another video data to the same destination, it searches for one of the stored past modem rates associated with the particular destination and corresponding in time to the present transmission.
Claims12
A facsimile apparatus comprising:
- storage means for storing sequentially and destination by destination transmission mode data associated with past transmissions of video data including the time of day and the date of transmission;
- setting means for setting up a transmission mode responsive to said stored information, for transmitting video data to any selected destination by referencing the stored transmission mode data associated with the selected destination;
- and
- updating means for updating the transmission mode data associated with the selected destination.
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A facsimile apparatus comprising:
- storage means for storing sequentially and destination by destination times at which video data are transmitted and modem rates which are set up for the respective transmissions including the time of day and the date of transmission;
- setting means for setting a modem rate responsive to said stored information, for transmitting video data to any selected destination by selecting one of the stored modem rates associated with the past transmissions which is substantially coincident in time with a present transmission;
- and
- updating means for updating the stored transmission modem rates associated with the selected destination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.