Communicating apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoto Akimoto
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Abstract
There are provided a communicating apparatus capable of connecting a message recording device and performing facsimile communication, and a control method for the communicating apparatus. In a mode in which the message recording device responds to an incoming call, if it is detected that an incoming call has disappeared, counting by a repeat incoming call timer starts. If a next incoming call is detected before a time-out of the repeat incoming call timer occurs, counting by a message recording monitoring timer for counting a message recording response time starts. If the message recording device does not capture a line before a time-out of the message recording monitoring timer occurs, and the incoming call has not disappeared, facsimile signal reception processing starts.
Claims11
A communicating apparatus capable of connecting a message recording device and performing facsimile communication, comprising:
- a detection unit configured to detect an incoming call and detect that the incoming call has disappeared;
- a start unit configured to, in a mode in which the message recording device responds to an incoming call, start counting by a repeat incoming call timer in a case where said detection unit detects that the incoming call has disappeared, and start counting by a message recording monitoring timer for counting a message recording response time in a case where said detection unit detects a next incoming call before a time-out of the repeat incoming call timer occurs;
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- a control unit configured to control to start facsimile signal reception processing in a case where the message recording device does not capture a line before a time-out of the message recording monitoring timer started by said start unit occurs, and the incoming call detected by said detection unit has not disappeared.
A control method for a communicating apparatus capable of connecting a message recording device and performing facsimile communication, comprising:
- a detection step of detecting an incoming call and detecting that the incoming call has disappeared;
- a start step of, in a mode in which the message recording device responds to an incoming call, starting counting by a repeat incoming call timer in a case where it is detected in the detection step that the incoming call has disappeared, and starting counting by a message recording monitoring timer for counting a message recording response time in a case where a next incoming call is detected in the detection step before a time-out of the repeat incoming call timer occurs;
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- a control step of controlling to start facsimile signal reception processing in a case where the message recording device does not capture a line before a time-out of the message recording monitoring timer started in the start step occurs, and the incoming call detected in the detection step has not disappeared.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.