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US 5,675,422 AGranted
Facsimile apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasato Hara, Nobuyuki Hirai
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Abstract
In a facsimile system received data is initially stored in an internal storage device, and subsequently is stored in an external storage device (hard disk drive or floppy disk drive) by a transfer process. The facsimile system stores the received data from a transmitting party in the internal storage device and determines a state of availability of the external storage device. When the external storage deice is available, the received data is transferred to the external storage device, and if not available, transfer is delayed until it becomes available.
Claims13
A facsimile apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving data from a sending party;
- internal storage means, having a plurality of block areas each capable of storing a block of data, for storing the data continuously received by said reception means into respective block areas as blocks of data;
- external storage means for storing the received data stored in said internal storage means;
- determination means for determining whether or not a predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in said internal storage means, where the predetermined number is less than a number of said block areas;
- and
- transfer means for transferring the received data stored in said internal storage means to said external storage means,
- wherein said transfer means starts the transfer operation when said determination means determines that the predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in said internal storage means, and wherein said reception means receives the data from the sending party during the transfer operation.
4 more elements
A facsimile apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving data from a sending party;
- a RAM, having a plurality of block areas each capable of storing a block of data, for storing the data continuously received by said reception means into respective block areas as blocks of data;
- a floppy disk for storing said blocks of data stored in said RAM;
- determination means for determining whether or not a predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in said RAM, where the predetermined number is less than a number of said block areas;
- and
- transfer means for transferring the received data stored in said RAM to said floppy disk,
- wherein said transfer means starts the transfer operation when said determination means determines that the predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in said RAM, and wherein said reception means receives the data from the sending party during the transfer operation.
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A facsimile apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving data from a sending party;
- internal storage means, having a plurality of block areas each capable of storing a block of data, for storing the data continuously received by said reception means in respective block areas as blocks of data;
- external storage means for storing said blocks of data stored in said internal storage means;
- detection means for detecting whether or not said external storage means is available to store data;
- determination means for determining whether or not a predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in said internal storage means, where the predetermined number is less than a number of said block areas;
- and
- transfer means for transferring the received data stored in said internal storage means to said external storage means, in accordance with a result of detection by said detection means and a result of determination by said determination means,
- wherein said internal storage means stores the received data independently of whether said transfer means is currently capable of performing the transfer operation, and
- said transfer means starts the transfer operation when said determination means determines that the predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in said internal storage means in a case where said external storage means is available.
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A data reception method adapted to a facsimile apparatus having an internal storage medium, including a plurality of block areas each capable of storing a block of data, and an external storage medium, comprising:
- a reception step of receiving data from a sending party;
- a first storage step of storing the data continuously received in said reception step in respective block areas as blocks of data in the internal storage medium;
- a first detection step of detecting whether or not the external storage medium is available to store data;
- a determination step of determining whether or not a predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in the internal storage medium, where the predetermined number is less than a number of said block areas;
- a transfer step of transferring the received data stored in the internal storage medium to the external storage medium, in accordance with a result of detection in said first detection step and a result of determination in said determination step, and
- a second storage step of storing the transferred data in the external storage medium;
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- wherein said first storage medium stores the received data in the first storage step independently of whether said transfer step is currently capable of being performed, and
- said transfer step starts the transfer operation when said determination step determines that the predetermined number of blocks of data has been stored in the internal storage medium in a case where the external storage medium is available.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.