US 8,553,261 B2Granted

Image communication apparatus

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorMikiya Okada

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Abstract

An image communication apparatus includes: a display; an input device displaying an address input dialogue on the display, receiving a user input to designate an address of a transmission destination of multicast transmission; storage storing multicast transmission history; an extracting device, connected to the input device and the storage, responsive to the input device receiving an input of an address of a transmission destination of multicast transmission, for extracting, from the multicast transmission history, a multicast transmission history record including the address received by the input device as a transmission destination, and extracting an address different from the address received by the input device, included in the extracted multicast transmission history record, as a candidate of multicast transmission destination; and a control device controlling the display such that the extracted candidate of multicast transmission destination is displayed in the address input dialogue.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An image communication apparatus capable of multicast transmission of transmitting image data to a plurality of transmission destinations in response to one transmission request, comprising:

a display device;
an input device displaying an address input dialogue on said display device, for receiving a user input to designate an address of a transmission destination of multicast transmission;
and
first storage storing a multicast transmission history;
wherein
each records in said multicast transmission history include an address of a destination of multicast transmission;
said image communication apparatus further comprising:
an extracting device, connected to said input device and said first storage, responsive to said input device receiving an input of an address of a transmission destination of multicast transmission, for extracting, from said multicast transmission history stored in said first storage, a multicast transmission history record including the address received by said input device as a transmission destination, and extracting only an address different from the address received by said input device, included in the extracted multicast transmission history record, as a candidate of multicast transmission destination;
and
a control device controlling said display device such that said extracted candidate of multicast transmission destination is displayed, in a manner allowing individual selection of each candidate, in said address input dialogue.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/829,418Filed 2 Jul 2010
Priority: JP 2009-1598936 Jul 2009
Published: US 2011/0002007 A16 Jan 2011
Granted: 8 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

H04N 1/0035
Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof: user-machine interface; Control console
H04N 1/00222
Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax: details of…
H04N 1/00244
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: with a server, e.g. an internet server
H04N 1/00411
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen