File transmission apparatus and image reading apparatus

• US 10,069,981 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2016
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oki Data Corporation (OKI Electric Industry Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Oki Data Corporation (OKI Electric Industry Company Limited)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Tadayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Cruz, Iriana
• Application Number:
  US15/269,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20170094073A1
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00225 details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or network scanners using an image reading device as a local input to a computer H04N1/00241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

A file transmission apparatus includes a mail producing section that produces an email for transmitting a transmission object file, a file name producing section that produces a file name of the transmission object file based a character string included in the email processed by the mail producing section and that assigns the produced file name to the transmission object file, and a transmission section that attaches, to the email, the transmission object file with the file name assigned at the file name producing section and that transmits the email, to make user'"'"'s manipulation significantly simplified and the usability further improved.

Claims

1. A file transmission apparatus comprising a control section configured to:

produce an email attached with a transmission object file;

produce a file name for the transmission object file attached to the email based on a character string included in the email processed by the control section and assign the produced file name to the transmission object file attached to the email;

transmit the email attached with the transmission object file having the file name assigned by the control section;

memorize in a file management list transmission object files that were previously transmitted by the control section, the previously transmitted transmission object files being memorized by their respective file names;

select to perform retransmission of one of the memorized previously transmitted transmission object files;

search the previously transmitted transmission object files in the file management list based on an email subject of the previously transmitted transmission object files upon selection to perform the transmission; and

retransmit the email attached with the transmission object file located in the search based on the email subject.

2. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is configured to produce the file name of the transmission object file based on a mail subject of the email produced by the control section, as the character string included in the email.

3. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is configured to produce the file name of the transmission object file based on a character string included in a template used for producing the email at the control section, as the character string included in the email.

4. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control section is configured to produce the file name of the transmission object file based on a mail subject of the email producible using the template, as the character string included in the email.

5. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is configured to produce the email using a template in which at least the mail subject is entered among the sendee information, the mail message, and the mail subject of the email.

6. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is configured to produce the file name based on the mail subject in addition with email production date and time information showing the date and time producing the email at the control section, as the character string included in the email.

7. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is configured to produce plural file names based on the mail subject serving as the character string included in the email as well as respective additional information data different from each other in a number of the file total number when transmitting the plural transmission object files and assigns the file names to the plural transmission object files, and wherein the control section transmits the plural transmission object files assigned with the file names from the control section in attached to the email.

8. The file transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is configured to produce the file name based on the mail subject, sender or sendee information of the email produced from the control section, as the character string included in the email.

9. An image reading apparatus comprising:

a reading section that reads an image; and

a control section configured to;

produce an email attached with an image file of the image read at the reading section, as a transmission object file;

produce a file name of the transmission object file attached to the email based a character string included in the email processed by the control section and assign the produced file name to the transmission object file attached to the email;

transmit the email attached with the transmission object file having the file name assigned by the control section;

memorize in a file management list transmission object files that were previously transmitted by the control section, the previously transmitted transmission object files being memorized by their respective file names;

select to perform retransmission of one of the memorized previously transmitted transmission object files;

search the previously transmitted transmission object files in the file management list based on an email subject of the previously transmitted transmission object files upon selection to perform the transmission; and

retransmit the email attached with the transmission object file located in the search based on the email subject.