Status processing system, status processor, and status displaying method
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusaku Takahashi, Fumitoshi Uno, Tomoki Nakamura
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Abstract
A status processor is communicable with a host device via a network. The processor includes a media connecting unit, a status-reflecting filename setting unit, and a server unit. The media connecting unit is capable of connecting a storage media. The status-reflecting filename setting unit sets a status-reflecting filename corresponding to a status of the processor or the storage media. The server unit transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device.
Claims13
A status processor communicable with a host device via a network and with a storage media, the processor comprising:
- a media connecting unit that is configured to connect to the storage media;
- a status-reflecting filename setting unit that sets a status-reflecting filename of a file corresponding to a status of the storage media;
- a server unit that transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device;
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- a storing portion which stores directory data indicating a prescribed directory, the prescribed directory being treated to include the file having the status-reflecting filename,
- the server unit transmits the data indicating the existence of the file to the host device, the file having the status-reflecting filename, if the host device requests a content of the prescribed directory, and
- wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename without storing the file having the status-reflecting filename in the storage media, wherein an FTP is used for communication between the server unit and the host unit and displaying the data on a displaying unit of the host device.
A status processing system comprising:
- a host device comprising a displaying unit;
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- a processor that is communicable with the host device via a network, the processor comprising:
- a media connecting unit that is configured to connect to a storage media;
- a status-reflecting filename setting unit that sets a status-reflecting filename of a file corresponding to a status of the storage media;
- a server unit that transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device;
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- a storing portion which stores directory data indicating a prescribed directory, the prescribed directory being treated to include the file having the status-reflecting filename,
- wherein the server unit transmits the data indicating the existence of the file to the host device, the file having the status-reflecting filename, if the host device requests a content of the prescribed directory,
- wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename without storing a file having the status-reflecting filename in the storage media, and
- wherein an FTP is used for communication between the server unit and the host unit and displaying the data on the displaying unit.
A status displaying method using a host device and a processor communicable with the host device via a network, the host device comprising a display unit, the processor comprising a media connecting unit that is configured to connect to a storage media, the status displaying method comprising:
- setting a status-reflecting filename in the processor, corresponding to a status of the storage media without storing a file having the status-reflecting filename in the storage media;
- storing directory data in the processor, indicating a prescribed directory, the prescribed directory including a file having the status-reflecting filename;
- transmitting data by the processor, indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device, the file having the status-reflecting filename, if the host device requests a content of the prescribed directory, wherein an FTP is used for communication between the server unit and the host unit;
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- displaying the data on the displaying unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.