US 7,417,760 B2Granted

Facsimile system

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKazumasa Tonami, Satoshi Murakami

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Abstract

A main controlling portion controls each portion of a facsimile system, and when a communication controlling portion receives facsimile communication information from a sender indicated by predetermined sender information stored in a storing portion, causes a LAN controlling portion to notify a notify party indicated by notify party information associated with the received sender information of notification information only when determining that a predetermined notification condition is satisfied. It is possible to notify of the notification information only when the predetermined notification condition desired by a user is satisfied, and it is possible to increase convenience. Moreover, consequently, the facsimile system does not execute an operation process of notifying of the notification information when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, so that it is possible to prevent a wasteful operation process.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A facsimile system comprising:

receiving means for receiving facsimile communication information given via a communication line and sender information indicative of a sender who sent the facsimile communication information;
notifying means for notifying of notification information indicative that the facsimile communication information was received;
storing means for storing predetermined sender information and notify party information indicative of a notify party in association with each other;
clocking means for keeping time;
and
controlling means for causing, when the receiving means receives the facsimile communication information and the sender information, the notifying means to notify the notify party, indicated by the notify party information associated with the received sender information, of the notify party information only when determining that the received sender information is stored in the storing means and, in a case where a predetermined notification term is set, time when the facsimile communication information starts to be received, the time being checked by the clocking means, is during the predetermined notification term.

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A facsimile system comprising:

receiving means for receiving facsimile communication information given via a communication line and sender information indicative of a sender who sent the facsimile communication information;
notifying means for notifying a notify party of notification information indicative that the facsimile communication information was received;
storing means for storing predetermined sender information and notify party information indicative of a notify party by respectively associating one predetermined sender information with a plurality of pieces of notify party information, and associating notify party information with a predetermined notification condition;
and
controlling means for causing, when the receiving means receives the facsimile communication information and the sender information, the notifying means to notify the notify party of the notify party information only when determining that the received sender information is stored in the storing means and, in a case where a predetermined notification condition is set, the notify party being indicated by the notify party information associated with the received sender information and the predetermined notification condition determined as being satisfied.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/123,803Filed 6 May 2005
Priority: JP P2004-28498329 Sep 2004
Published: US 2006/0066895 A130 Mar 2006
Granted: 26 Aug 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04N 1/32395
Functions of a still picture terminal memory associated with reception: informing an absent addressee of receipt
H04N 1/324
Using picture signal storage, e.g. at transmitter: intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange
H04N 1/32438
In a particular memory file for retrieval by the user, e.g. in a facsimile mailbox: informing the addressee of reception
H04N 1/00209
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a…