Communication device and method of displaying content titles
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKanako Kotake
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AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKanako Kotake
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A communication device is configured to access, based on summary location data, content summary data, which includes at least titles of a plurality of pieces of content, location data representing locations of the plurality of pieces of content and description data representing a part of each of the plurality of pieces of content. A first memory stores a plurality of pieces of storing summary data, and a second memory stores a predetermined number of pieces of storing summary data selected from among the plurality of pieces of storing summary data stored in the first memory. A first display unit displays the predetermined number of pieces of storing summary data in a list and in a scrolled manner. A transmission unit transmits the content location data included in the storing summary data corresponding to the selected title to a data display device that is communicably connected with the communication device.
A communication device configured to access, based on summary location data, content summary data, which includes at least titles of a plurality of pieces of content, location data representing locations of the plurality of pieces of content and description data representing a part of each of the plurality of pieces of content, the communication device comprising:
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Retrieval from the web: using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
Computing and data processing
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This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2008-257296 filed on Oct. 2, 2008. The entire subject matter of the application is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Technical Field
The following description relates to a communication device configured to display titles of content laid open on a network.
FIG. 1 schematically shows a multifunction system according to aspects of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an MFD (multifunction device) employed in the multifunction system shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows an example of a coordinate information table according to aspects of the invention.
Hereinafter, referring to the accompanying drawings, an embodiment according to aspects of the invention will be described.
As shown in FIG. 1, a multifunction system 2 includes an MFD (multifunction device) 10, a plurality of PCs (personal computers) 70 and 71, a plurality of content supplying servers 90 and 91. The MFD 10 is connected to a LAN (local area network) 4. The PCs 70 and 71 are also connected to the LAN 4. The LAN 4 is connected to the Internet 8 through a router 6. Each of the content supplying servers 90 and 91 is also connected to the Internet 8. According to the exemplary embodiment, the content supplying server 90 lays open a web site, and the content supplying server 91 lays open another web site. Each web site includes a plurality of pieces of content. Further, the content supply servers 90 and 91 store feed data, which is the feed information in the form or RSS format, representing summaries of the plurality of pieces of content of the sites, respectively.
The MFD 10 has, as shown in a block diagram (FIG. 2), a control unit 12, a display panel 50, a keypad 52, a printer unit 54, a scanner unit 56, a facsimile unit 58, a network interface 60, a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) interface 62. The control unit 12 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 14, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 16, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 30 and an NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM) 40.