Method of notifying job status in image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKaori Marunouchi
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a job registering unit, an address setting unit, a control unit, a detecting unit, and a transmitting unit. The job registering unit registers a job. The address setting unit sets an electronic mail address to be set as a transmission destination of a status concerning the job registered in the job registering unit. The control unit executes the job registered in the job registering unit. The detecting unit detects the status concerning the job executed by the control unit. The transmitting unit transmits an electronic mail including the status of the job detected by the detecting unit to the electronic mail address set by the address setting unit.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job registering unit configured to register a job;
- an address setting unit configured to set an email address to be set as a transmission destination of a status concerning the job registered in the job registering unit;
- a control unit configured to execute the job registered in the job registering unit;
- a status setting unit configured to set, for each cause of an interruption, whether the interruption of the job is notified,
- a detecting unit configured to detect the status concerning the job executed by the control unit;
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- a transmitting unit configured to transmit, if the detecting unit detects the interruption of the job and if a cause of the interruption of the job is a cause of the interruption of the job to be notified, an electronic mail including information indicating the interruption of the job and the cause of the interruption to the email address set by the address setting unit.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job registering unit configured to register a job;
- an address setting unit configured to set an email address to be set as a transmission destination of a status concerning the job registered in the job registering unit;
- a control unit configured to execute the job registered in the job registering unit;
- a status setting unit configured to set whether cancellation of the job is notified,
- a detecting unit configured to detect the status concerning the job executed by the control unit;
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- a transmitting unit configured to transmit, if the detecting unit detects the cancellation of the job to be notified, an electronic mail including information indicating the cancellation of the job to the email address set by the address setting unit.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job registering unit configured to register a job;
- an address setting unit configured to set an email address to be set as a transmission destination of a status concerning the job registered in the job registering unit;
- a control unit configured to execute the job registered in the job registering unit;
- a detecting unit configured to detect the status concerning the job executed by the control unit;
- an operation unit configured to instruct data to be transmitted while being attached to the status;
- a storing unit configured to store default setting of the data to be transmitted while being attached to the status;
- a transmission-data setting unit configured to set the data instructed by the operation unit as the data transmitted while being attached to the status, and if there is no instruction by the operation unit, the data to be transmitted while being attached to the status according to the default setting stored in the storing unit;
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- a transmitting unit transmits an electronic mail in which the data set by the transmission-data setting unit is attached to information indicating the status of the job detected by the detecting unit to the email address set by the address setting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.