Internet facsimile apparatus and e-mail receiving method
AssigneePanasonic Communications Co., Ltd.
InventorKyoji Saito
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Abstract
An Internet facsimile apparatus is configured to receive e-mail and to print the e-mail. The Internet facsimile apparatus includes a controller that determines whether the received e-mail includes a text part when it is determined that the received e-mail comprises a multipart structure, and determines whether the text part includes a predetermined pair of codes. The controller replaces a character string between the predetermined pair of codes with another predetermined code when it is determined that the text part includes the predetermined pair of codes, so that the character string replaced by the another predetermined code is not printed.
Claims10
An Internet facsimile apparatus, comprising:
- an interface configured to receive e-mail;
- a printer configured to print the received e-mail;
- a data pattern analyzer configured to analyze a header portion of the received e-mail to determine whether the received e-mail is a multipart structure, and to determine whether the received e-mail includes a text part when it is determined that the received e-mail is the multipart structure;
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- a text processor configured to determine whether the text part includes a predetermined pair of codes when it is determined that the received e-mail includes the text part, all character data included between the predetermined pair of codes being replaced with a blank code when it is determined that the text part includes the predetermined pair of codes, so that the all character data replaced by the blank code is not printed by the printer, wherein the predetermined pair of codes comprise unprintable codes.
An e-mail receiving method, comprising:
- receiving an e-mail;
- analyzing a header portion of the received e-mail to determine whether the received e-mail is a multipart structure, and to determine whether the received e-mail includes a text part when it is determined that the received e-mail is the multipart structure;
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- determining whether the text part includes a predetermined pair of codes when it is determined that the received e-mail includes the text part, all character data included between the predetermined pair of codes being replaced with a blank code when it is determined that the text part includes the predetermined pair of codes, so that the all character data replaced by the blank code is not printed when the received e-mail is printed by a printer, wherein the predetermined pair of codes comprise an unprintable code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.