US 9,432,441 B2Granted

Relaying device, image processing device, and system comprising image processing device and relaying device

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorMasayuki Ishibashi

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Abstract

A relaying device may be configured to communicate with an image processing device and a server device via a network. The server device may be configured to store uploaded data. The relaying device may receive, from the image processing device, selected data format instruction information. The relaying device may execute a conversion processing when the upload data is data in a first format and the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information is a second format, or when the upload data is data in a third format and the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information is not the third format. The relaying device may receive the upload data and convert the received upload data into converted data in the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information. The relaying device may transmit the converted data to the server device.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A relaying device comprising:

a network interface configured to connect with a network;
a processor coupled to the network interface;
and
a memory storing instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the relaying device to perform:
receiving, via the network interface, from an image processing device which is connected with the network, selected data format instruction information identifying a selected data format, the selected data format being a data format selected as the data format in uploading upload data transmitted from the image processing device to a server device which is:
configured to store uploaded data;
and connected with the network;
receiving, via the network interface, from the image processing device, upload data format instruction information identifying a data format of the upload data;
and
determining whether the data format of the upload data, identified by the upload data format instruction information, is a first format, a second format, a third format, or another format and whether the selected data format, identified by the selected data format instruction information, is the first format, the second format, the third format or another format, the first format being a format which can be generated by the image processing device, the second format being a format which cannot be generated by the image processing device, and the third format being a format which cannot be interpreted by the image processing device,
when it is determined that the upload data is in the first format and the selected data format is the second format or that the upload data is in the third format and the selected data format is not the third format, the instructions further cause the relaying device to perform:
receiving the upload data transmitted from the image processing device;
converting the received upload data into converted data in the selected data format;
and
transmitting the converted data to the server device via the network interface,
when it is determined that the data format of the upload data and the selected data format are the same, the instructions further cause the relaying device to perform:
transmitting, via the network interface upload information to the image processing device, the upload information being for causing the image processing device to transmit the upload data to the server device not via the relaying device.

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An image processing device comprising:

a network interface configured to connect with a network;
and
a control device coupled to the network interface and configured to perform:
selecting a selected data format, the selected data format being a data format selected as the data format in uploading upload data transmitted from the image processing device to a server device which is:
configured to store uploaded data;
and connected with the network;
transmitting, via the network interface, to a relaying device which is connected with the network, selected data format instruction information identifying the selected data format;
transmitting, via the network interface, to the relaying device, upload data format instruction information identifying a data format of the upload data;
and
transmitting, via the network inferface, to the relaying device, determination request information for causing the relaying device to determine whether the data format of the upload data, identified by the upload data format instruction information, is a first format, a second format, a third format, or another format and whether the selected data format, identified by the selected data format instruction information, is the first format, the second format, the third format or another format, the first format being a format which can be generated by the image processing device, the second format being a format which cannot be generated by the image processing device, and the third format being a format which cannot be interpreted by the image processing device;
when it is determined that the upload data is in the first format and the selected data format is the second format or that the upload data is in the third format and the selected data format is not the third format, the control device is further configured to perform:
receiving, via the network interface, from the relaying device, first instruction information for causing the image processing device to transmit execute request information to the relaying device, execution request information for causing the relaying device to execute a conversion processing including:
receiving the upload data transmitted from the image processing device;
converting the received upload data into converted data in the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information;
and transmitting the converted data to the server device,
transmitting, via the network interface, to the relaying device, the execution request information and the upload data,
when it is determined that the data format of the upload data and the selected data format are the same, the control device is further configured to perform:
receiving, via the network interface, from the relaying device, upload information for causing the image processing device to transmit the upload data to the server device not via the relaying device;
and
transmitting, via the network interface, the upload data to the server device not via the relaying device.

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A system comprising an image processing device and a relaying device,

the image processing device comprising:
a first network interface configured to connect with a network;
and
a control device coupled to the first network interface,
the relaying device comprising:
a second network interface configured to connect with the network;
a processor coupled to the second network interface;
and
a memory storing instructions,
wherein
the control device of the image processing device is configured to perform:
selecting a selected data format, the selected data format being a data format selected as the data format in uploading upload data transmitted from the image processing device to a server device which is:
configured to store uploaded data;
and connected with the network;
transmitting, to the relaying device, via the first network interface, selected data format instruction information identifying the selected data format;
and
transmitting, via the first network interface, to the relaying device, upload data format instruction information identifying a data format of the upload data,
the instructions, when executed by the processor of the relaying device, cause the relaying device to perform:
receiving, from the image processing device, via the second network interface, the selected data format instruction information and the upload data format instruction information;
and
determining whether the data format of the upload data, identified by the upload data format instruction information, is a first format, a second format, a third format, or another format and whether the selected data format, identified by the selected data format instruction information, is the first format, the second format, the third format or another format, the first format being a format which can be generated by the image processing device, the second format being a format which cannot be generated by the image processing device, and the third format being a format which cannot be interpreted by the image processing device,
when it is determined that the upload data is in the first format and the selected data format is the second format or that the upload data is in the third format and the selected data format is not the third format, the instructions further cause the relaying device to perform:
transmitting first information, via the second network interface, to the image processing device, the first information being for causing the image processing device to transmit the upload data to the relaying device;
receiving, via the second network interface, the upload data transmitted from the image processing device;
converting the received upload data into converted data in the selected data format;
and
transmitting, via the second network interface, the converted data to the server device,
when it is determined that the data format of the upload data and the selected data format are the same, the instructions further cause the relaying device to perform:
transmitting upload information, via the second network interface, to the image processing device, the upload information being for causing the image processing device to transmit the upload data to the server device not via the relaying device, and
the control device of the image processing device is further configured to perform:
transmitting the upload data, via the first network interface, to the relaying device, when the first information is received;
and
transmitting the upload data, via the first network interface, to the server device not via the relaying device, when the upload information is received.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/170,114Filed 31 Jan 2014
Priority: JP 2013-0464678 Mar 2013
Published: US 2014/0258470 A111 Sep 2014
Granted: 30 Aug 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04L 67/06
Protocols: specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
H04N 1/00244
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: with a server, e.g. an internet server
H04N 1/32406
Intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange: in connection with routing or relaying, e.g. using a fax-server or a…
H04N 1/33307
Mode signalling or mode changing; Handshaking therefor: prior to start of transmission, input or output of the picture signal only