Communication apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

• US 10,250,391 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tonegawa, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl, Joseph P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shirazi, Sayed Aresh Beheshti
• Application Number:
  US14/688,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20150312044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,447 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures

Abstract

A transmitting side communication apparatus reads an image from an original, adds, in a case where an IFAX mode is selected, signature information related to a user and signature information related to the apparatus to an electronic mail, and adds, in a case where an electronic mail mode is selected, signature information related to the user to the electronic mail.

Claims

1. A control method for controlling a communication apparatus having an internet fax transmitting mode for transmitting image data of Tag Image File Format (TIFF) using electronic mail, the control method comprising the steps of:

setting a first email address of the communication apparatus to a From field of a header of electronic mail data;

setting a second email address of a login user who logs in to the communication apparatus to a Sender field of the header of the electronic mail data;

generating a first electronic signature using the first email address set in the From field;

generating a second electronic signature using the second email address set in the Sender field;

adding to the electronic mail data including the image data of the TIFF, the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature; and

transmitting, in the internet fax transmitting mode, the image data of the TIFF as the electronic mail data to which the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature are added.

2. The control method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of encrypting the image data to be transmitted using the electronic mail.

3. The control method according to claim 1, wherein the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature are added to a mail body of the electronic mail data.

4. The control method according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic mail data to be transmitted includes data obtained by encrypting, using a public key of a destination apparatus, a content encryption key changing for each electronic mail.

5. The control method according to claim 4, wherein

the electronic mail data to be transmitted includes data obtained by encrypting, using the content encryption key, the electronic mail data including an attached file.

6. The control method according to claim 1, wherein

the first electric signature includes at least one of identification information for identifying a manufacturer, an apparatus name of the communication apparatus, a device number of the communication apparatus, and an email address of an administrator.

7. The control method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

generating image data by reading an image on an original; and

in the internet fax transmitting mode, adding an image header including the email address of the communication apparatus and an email address of a destination apparatus to the generated image data, generating an image file based on the image data to which the image header is attached, and transmitting the electronic mail data to which the generated image file is attached.

8. The control method according to claim 1, wherein

the communication apparatus includes another transmitting mode in which image data is transmitted using electronic mail, the another transmitting mode being different from the internet fax transmitting mode, and

comprising the steps of:

in a case where electronic mail data is transmitted in the other transmitting mode,

setting the email address of the login user to the From field of the header of the electronic mail data;

adding the second electronic signature to the electronic mail data without adding the first electronic signature to the electronic mail data; and

transmitting the electronic mail data to which the second electronic signature is added.

9. A communication apparatus comprising:

a communication interface configured to transmit image data of Tag Image File Format (TIFF) using electronic mail in an internet fax transmitting mode;

one or more memories configured to store a set of instructions; and

one or more processors configured to executes the instructions to;

set a first email address of the communication apparatus to a From field of a header of electronic mail data;

set a second email address of a login user who logs in to the communication apparatus to a Sender filed of the header of the electronic mail data;

generate a first electronic signature using the first email address set in the From field;

generate a second electronic signature using the second email address set in the sender field;

add, to the electronic mail data including the image data of the TIFF, the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature; and

transmit, in the internet fax transmitting mode, the image data of the TIFF as the electronic mail data to which the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature are added.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for performing a control method for controlling a communication apparatus having an internet fax transmitting mode for transmitting image data of Tag Image File Format (TIFF) using electronic mail, the control method comprising the steps of:

setting a first email address of the communication apparatus to a From field of a header of electronic mail data;

setting a second email address of a login user who logs in to the communication apparatus to a Sender field of the header of the electronic mail data;

generating a first electronic signature using the first email address set in the From Field;

generating a second electronic signature using the second email address set in the sender field;

adding, to the electronic mail data including the image data of the TIFF, the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature; and

transmitting, in the internet fax transmitting mode, the image data of the TIFF as the electronic mail data to which the first electronic signature and the second electronic signature are added.