INTERNET FACSIMILE APPARATUS AND INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20010040693A1
• Filed: 06/25/1998
• Published: 11/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Communications Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SAITO, KYOJI, TOYODA, KIYOSHI
• Granted Patent: US 6,351,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00217 only involving computer data transmission protocols, e.g. SMTP, WAP or HTTP communication protocol aspects and techniques in packet data networks H04L69/00; network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00236 using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer image input to or image output from a computer via a network H04N1/00209
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00238 using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer output via network, e.g. network printing H04N1/00233
• 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 1/32614 related to a single-mode communication, e.g. at the transmitter or at the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32635 of reproducing apparatus or receiver, e.g. out of paper
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32657 locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32678 Performing substitution, e.g. substitute reception or substituting a corrupted line of data H04N1/32384 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0067 Converting to still picture data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0068 Converting from still picture data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3207 of an address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3223 of type information, e.g. reception or copy job
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3261 of multimedia information, e.g. a sound signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3271 Printing or stamping
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 : Display

Abstract

In the case where received e-mail data can not be printed, e-mail control section 33 transfers the received e-mail data to another information terminal device. And facsimile control section 34 instructs facsimile section 27 to print an error message including sender information and an attached file format. And indication control section 35 starts up indication section 29.

Claims

1. An Internet facsimile apparatus comprising:

deciding means for deciding whether or not a received e-mail data is printable;

identifying means for identifying an address of an information terminal device to be transferred; and

transferring means for transferring an unprintable e-mail data into said information terminal device to be transferred

2. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein said deciding means decides, only in the case where the received e-mail data meets a requirement registered in advance, that the received e-mail data is printable.

3. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein said identifying means identifies an address of an information terminal device to be transferred from a header information of the received e-mail data.

4. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein said identifying means identifies an address of an information terminal device of a sender as an address of an information terminal device to be transferred

5. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, further comprising indicating means for indicating that the received e-mail data is unprintable.

6. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, further comprising extracting means for extracting a specific information from the header information of the unprintable e-mail data, and printing means for printing an error message including said specific information.

7. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 6

, wherein said extracting means extracts as a part of the specific information at least a sender information and an attached file format.

8. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 6

, wherein said printing means adds information concerning that the received e-mail is unprintable into a part of an error message.

9. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, further comprising notifying means for notifying information concerning that the received e-mail data is unprintable to an information terminal device to be transferred.

10. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 9

, wherein said notifying means notifies the specific information extracted from the header information of the unprintable e-mail data to the information terminal device to be transferred.

15. An information terminal device, said information terminal device comprises instructing means for instructing, in the case where it is notified that an unprintable e-mail data is received from the Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 1

, said Internet facsimile apparatus to transfer the unprintable e-mail data or not.

11. An Internet facsimile apparatus comprising:

deciding means for deciding whether or not a received e-mail data is printable;

extracting means for extracting a specific information from a header information of an unprintable e-mail data; and

printing means for printing an error message including said specific information.

12. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 11

, wherein said deciding means decides, only in the case where the received e-mail data meets a requirement registered in advance, that the received e-mail data is printable.

13. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 11

, wherein said extracting means extracts as a part of the specific information at least a sender information and an attached file format.

14. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to

claim 11

, wherein said printing means adds information concerning that the received e-mail data is unprintable into a part of an error message.