Image transmission apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHisashi Uchida, Kazuo Inui, Tomo Tsuboi, Hideki Hino, Ayumi Itoh
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Abstract
A transmission-side MFP receives a user name, checks whether the user name is registered in a destination user list, and if so, transmits image data to a reception-side MFP. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. When a NACK is received or a time out occurs, the transmission-side MFP checks whether the user name is registered in an individual address book, and if so, transmits the image data using a corresponding transmission method. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. If a timeout occurs, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission failed.
Claims22
An image transmission apparatus that transmits image data to an image processing apparatus that processes the image data in accordance with a destination name of the image data, comprising:
- a transmitter operable to transmit image data in accordance with an instruction from a user;
- a destination name receiver operable to receive a destination name that is a name of a destination of the image data;
- a judgment part operable to judge whether or not the transmission of the image data succeeds or fails;
- a shared list that is shared by a plurality of users and that corresponds destination names with image processing apparatuses;
- a history list that corresponds destination names with other apparatuses that the transmitter has transmitted image data to in the past;
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- a plurality of individual lists, each of which is administered by a different one of the plurality of users, and that corresponds the destination names with apparatuses other than the image processing apparatuses corresponded therewith in the shared list,
- wherein, when the judgment part judges that transmission of the image data to the image processing apparatus corresponded with the destination name in the shared list has failed, the transmitter transmits the image data to an apparatus that is corresponded with the destination name in the individual list administered by the user who instructed the transmission;
- wherein when the judgment part judges that the transmission of the image data to the apparatus associated with destination name in the individual list has failed, the transmitter transmits the image data to the apparatus associated with the destination name in the history list.
An image transmission apparatus used by a plurality of users, comprising:
- a transmitter operable to transmit image data in accordance with an instruction from a user;
- a notification receiver operable to receive reception notification from an image processing apparatus, the reception notification showing that the image data has been received;
- a destination name receiver operable to receive a destination name that is a name of a destination of the image data;
- a judgment part operable to judge whether or not the transmission of the image data succeeds or fails;
- a shared list that is shared by the plurality of users and that corresponds destination names with image processing apparatuses;
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- a history list that corresponds transfer destinations with the destination names, each transfer destination being an apparatus to which transmitted image data has been transferred in the past,
- wherein when the destination name receiver receives the destination name, the transmitter transmits the image data to the image processing apparatus corresponded with the received destination name in the shared list, and
- when the judgment part judges that the transmission has failed, the transmitter transmits the image data to the apparatus corresponded with the received destination name in the history list.
A nontransitory computer readable medium encoded with an image transmission program being executed by an image transmission apparatus that transmits image data to an image processing apparatus that processes the image data in accordance with a destination name of the image data, the image transmission apparatus storing (a) a shared list that is shared by a plurality of users and that corresponds destination names with image processing apparatuses, (b) a plurality of individual lists, each of which is administered by a different one of the plurality of users and that corresponds the destination names with apparatuses other than the image processing apparatuses corresponded therewith in the shared list, and (c) a history list that corresponds destination names with other apparatuses that the image transmission apparatus has transmitted image data to in the past, the image transmission program causing the image transmission apparatus to perform the steps of:
- receiving a destination name that is a name of a destination of image data;
- transmitting the image data in accordance with an instruction from a user;
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- judging whether or not the transmission of the image data succeeds or fails,
- wherein, when it is judged that transmission of the image data to the image processing apparatus corresponded with the destination name in the shared list has failed, the image data is transmitted to an apparatus that is corresponded with the destination name in the individual list administered by the user who instructed the transmission;
- wherein when, in the judgment step, it is judged that the transmission of the image data to the apparatus associated with destination name in the individual list has failed, the image data is transmitted to the apparatus associated with the destination name in the history list.
A nontransitory computer readable medium encoded with an image transmission program being executed by an image transmission apparatus that is used by a plurality of users, the image processing apparatus storing a shared list that is shared by the plurality of users and that corresponds destination names with image processing apparatuses, the image transmission program causing the image transmission apparatus to perform the steps of:
- receiving a destination name that is a name of a destination of image data;
- transmitting the image data in accordance with an instruction from a user;
- receiving reception notification from an image processing apparatus, the reception notification showing that the image data has been received, and
- judging whether or not the transmission of the image data succeeds or fails,
- wherein, the image transmission apparatus further stores a history list that corresponds transfer destinations with the destination names, each transfer destination being an apparatus to which transmitted image data has been transferred in the past,
- when the destination name is received in the destination name receiving step, in the transmitting step, the image data is transmitted to the image processing apparatus corresponded with the received destination name in the shared list, and
- when, in the judgment step it is judged that the transmission has failed, in the transmission step the image data is transmitted to the apparatus corresponded with the received destination name in the history list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.