Digital multifunctional apparatus and data terminal apparatus connected therewith
AssigneePanasonic Communications Co., Ltd.
InventorIsao Aoki
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Abstract
A digital multifunctional apparatus includes a printer, a scanner and a memory. A document code is stored in the memory and printed on a management document when a scanned document is stored in the memory. The document code identifies the scanned document. The apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive data from an external data source. The memory is configured to store the data received from the external data source. A generator generates a document code that identifies the data received by the receiver. Further, a transmitter transmits the document code to the external data source to enable access by the external data source to the data in the memory identified by the document code.
Claims20
A digital multifunctional apparatus comprising:
- a scanner that scans a document image;
- a communicator that communicates with a client through a communication network;
- a storage that stores at least one document;
- a document registrator that stores a document image scanned by said scanner and data received by said communicator in said storage as a registered document, creates a document code and managing information, said document code comprising a unique code for the registered document, said managing information including a storage address of the registered document associated with the document code;
- a notifier that, when said registered document is requested by a signal from the client, transfers the document code of said registered document to said communicator so that the document code is sent to the client via the communication network;
- an outputter that creates an identification mark indicating said document code and outputs a managing document combining said identification mark and at least part of said registered document;
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- a document searcher configured to search for a document in said storage, said searcher configured to analyze the identification mark included in a scanned image of the managing document scanned by said scanner to recognize the document code to acquire the storage address corresponding to the recognized document code from said managing information and to extract the document from the acquired storage address.
A computer including a display and an input device, comprising:
- a recording medium that stores programs;
- a processor that reads a program stored in said recording medium and performs a processing according to the program;
- a memory in which data generated by said processor is stored;
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- a communicator that communicates with a digital multifunctional apparatus via a network,
- wherein said recording medium stores a first program which is executable to obtain a document and a second program which is executable to transfer a document,
- said first program instructing said processor to create a document in accordance with a signal input by said input device, to display the document on said display, and to create managing information including the document name, input from said input device, and a storage location in said memory when the document is stored at the storage location,
- said second program, upon receipt of an instruction from said input device that the document should be stored in said digital multifunctional apparatus, instructs said processor to transfer the document from said memory via said communicator to said digital multifunctional apparatus and, when said communicator receives a document code from said digital multifunctional apparatus, links said document code with the document name in said managing information.
A digital multifunctional apparatus including a printer, a scanner and a memory, wherein a document code is stored in the memory and printed on a management document when a scanned document is stored in the memory, the document code identifying the scanned document, the digital multifunctional apparatus comprising:
- a receiver configured to receive data from an external data source;
- the memory configured to store data received from the external data source;
- a generator that generates a document code that identifies the data received by said receiver;
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- a transmitter configured to transmit the document code to the external data source to enable access, by the external data source, to the data in the memory identified by the document code.
A data terminal apparatus connected to a digital multifunctional apparatus, the digital multifunctional apparatus printing a document code on a management document when a scanned document is stored in memory, the document code identifying the scanned document, the data terminal apparatus comprising:
- a generator that generates a file name corresponding to created data;
- a transmitter configured to transmit the data to the digital multifunctional apparatus to store the data into the memory of the digital multifunctional apparatus;
- a receiver configured to receive a document code corresponding to the transmitted data from the digital multifunctional apparatus, the document code being utilized to manage the transmitted data in the digital multifunctional apparatus;
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- a table that stores the document code received by said receiver, corresponding to the generated file name, the data corresponding to the file name being accessible from the digital multifunctional apparatus by use of the document code.
A method for storing data into a memory of a digital multifunctional apparatus including a memory, a printer and a scanner, wherein a document code is stored in the memory and printed on a management document when a scanned document is stored in the memory, the document code identifying the scanned document, the method comprising:
- receiving the data from an external data source;
- storing the data received from the external data source;
- generating a document code that identifies the stored data;
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- transmitting the document code to the external data source to enable access by the external data source to the stored data identified by the document code.
A method for storing data, using a terminal apparatus connected to a digital multifunctional apparatus, the digital multifunctional apparatus printing a document code on a management document when a scanned document is stored in memory, the document code identifying the scanned document, the method comprising:
- generating a file name corresponding to created data;
- transmitting the data to the digital multifunctional apparatus to store the data into the memory of the digital multifunctional apparatus;
- receiving a document code corresponding to the transmitted data from the digital multifunctional apparatus, the document code being utilized to manage the transmitted data in the digital multifunctional apparatus;
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- storing the received document code corresponding to the generated file name into a table, the data corresponding to the file name being accessible from the digital multifunctional apparatus by use of the document code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.