Method of controlling the reception of data
AssigneeMita Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Kishi
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Abstract
A method of controlling the reception of data comprising a step for storing 1-page units of data which may be one or more times read out, in a receive buffer capable of storing a plurality of the 1-page units; a step for establishing a page pointer for indicating a starting address of the 1-page unit, when it is read out from the receive buffer; a step for erasing the page pointer of the 1-page units which are not required to be read out for a second time; and a step for rereading out the 1-page unit whose starting address is indicated by the page pointer, when rereading-out is required, wherein the page pointers are erased in order of the 1-page units having been established thereof.
Claims6
A method for controlling the reception of data comprising the steps of;
- storing data in a plurality of 1-page units in a receiver buffer capable of storing said plurality of 1-page units, said stored 1-page units of data being capable of being read out from said receive buffer one or more times;
- reading out said stored 1-page units of data from said receive buffer sequentially;
- establishing a page pointer for each of said stored 1-page units of data for indicating an associated starting address for said stored 1-page unit when it is read out from said receive buffer;
- rereading out said 1-page units whose associate starting addresses are indicated by the page pointers when rereading-out of said associated 1-page units for a second time is required to effectuate printing of the same data as initially read out by said reading out of said 1-page units;
- erasing the first established one of said page pointers for said stored 1-page units whenever a predetermined number of said stored 1-page units having said page pointers are stored together in said receive buffer;
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- writing new data in a data area storing the 1-page unit of data whose page pointer has been erased.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.