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US 6,498,836 B1Granted
Data communication apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshio Kenmochi
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Abstract
A data communication apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving data, a memory unit for storing received data, an informing unit for, after memory reception is performed by the memory unit, automatically calling a predetermined destination and informing that memory reception is performed, and a transmitting unit for transmitting data of the memory unit in accordance with reception of a control signal.
Claims20
A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- receiving means for receiving units of data in accordance with a facsimile communication procedure;
- storing means for storing a plurality of the units of data received by said receiving means and identification (ID) information for respectively identifying each unit of data received by said receiving means;
- ID information receiving means for receiving ID information from a destination station;
- processing means for selectively reading out some, but fewer than all, of the plurality of stored units of data from said storing means having ID information corresponding to the ID information received by said ID information receiving means;
- and
- transmitting means for transmitting the read-out units of data in accordance with the facsimile communication procedure to the destination station.
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A data communication method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving units of data in accordance with a facsimile communication procedure;
- storing, in a storing means, a plurality of the units of data received in said receiving step and identification (ID) information for respectively identifying each unit of data received by said receiving means;
- receiving ID information from a destination station;
- selectively reading out some, but fewer than all, of the plurality of stored units of data from the storing means having ID information means corresponding to the ID information received in said ID information receiving step;
- and
- transmitting the read-out units of data in accordance with the facsimile communication procedure to the destination station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.