Image forming device capable of transmitting document to another device

A control method of an image forming device, comprising:

• a transmission step of transmitting a document to a reception-side device, a copy of said document being stored at said reception-side device;
• a storage step of storing said document;
• an acquisition step of acquiring a status of said copy of said document from said reception-side device;
• a first determination step of determining based on said status acquired in said acquisition step whether said copy of said document is automatically deleted before being accessed by a specific user at said reception-side device;
• and
• a retransmission step of retransmitting said document to said reception-side device addressing said specific user when determined that said copy of said document is automatically deleted before being accessed by said specific user at said reception-side device,
• wherein said acquisition step includes acquiring a document history and a user history,
• the document history comprises document identification information identifying said copy of said document associated with a user identification information of said specific user, and an operation information identifying whether said copy of said document identified in the document identification information is automatically deleted or not, and
• the user history includes one or more user identification information identifying one or more users at said reception-side device, a document identification information identifying a document associated with each user identification information, and an operation information identifying whether the user identified by each user identification information accessed the document identified by the associated document identification information.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program, the program performing:

• a transmission step of transmitting a document to a reception-side device, a copy of said document being stored at said reception-side device;
• a storage step of storing said document;
• an acquisition step of acquiring a status of said copy of said document from said reception-side device;
• a first determination step of determining based on said status acquired in said acquisition step whether said copy of said document is automatically deleted before being accessed by a specific user at said reception-side device;
• and
• a retransmission step of retransmitting said document to said reception-side device addressing said specific user when determined that said copy of said document is automatically deleted before being accessed by said specific user at said reception-side device,
• wherein said acquisition step includes acquiring a document history and a user history,
• the document history comprises document identification information identifying said copy of said document associated with a user identification information of said specific user, and an operation information identifying whether said copy of said document identified in the document identification information is automatically deleted or not, and
• the user history includes one or more user identification information identifying one or more users at said reception-side device, a document identification information identifying a document associated with each user identification information, and an operation information identifying whether the user identified by each user identification information accessed the document identified by the associated document identification information.

A system comprising a first image forming device and a second image forming device,

• wherein the first image forming device includes
• a first storage section configured to store a document,
• a first transmission section configured to transmit the document to the second image forming device,
• an acquisition section configured to acquire a status of a copy of the document from the second image forming device,
• a determination section configured to determine based on the status acquired by the acquisition section whether the copy of the document is automatically deleted before accessed by a specific user at the second image forming device, and
• a retransmission section configured to retransmit the document stored in the first storage section to the second image forming device addressing said specific user when the determination section determines that the copy of the document is automatically deleted before being accessed by said specific user at the second image forming device, and
• wherein the second image forming device includes;
• a receiving section configured to receive the document transmitted from the first image forming device,
• a second storage section configured to store the received document as the copy of the document,
• a deletion section configured to delete the copy of the document stored in the second storage section, and
• a second transmission section configured to transmit the status of the copy of the document to the first image forming device in response to a request from the first image forming device,
• wherein the first image forming device acquires a document history and a user history from the second image forming device,
• the document history comprises document identification information identifying said copy of said document associated with a user identification information of said specific user, and an operation information identifying whether said copy of said document identified in the document identification information is automatically deleted or not, and
• the user history includes one or more user identification information identifying one or more users at said reception-side device, a document identification information identifying a document associated with each user identification information, and an operation information identifying whether the user identified by each user identification information accessed the document identified by the associated document identification information.