Communication apparatus

• US 20020007458A1
• Filed: 07/10/2001
• Published: 01/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ooi, Yoshikatsu
• Application Number:
  US09/901,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20020007458A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes

Abstract

An object of the invention is to prevent unnecessary fetching of data stored in a server while preventing the occurrence of a situation in which no mail can be received at a necessary time in a communication apparatus for fetching the data stored in the server. In this communication apparatus, a time table number corresponding to a day of the week counted by a timer is obtained from a day of the week designated day storage section. An automatic calling time closest to and later than the present time is obtained from a calling time storage section and is set to a designated time based on this obtained time table number and the present time counted by the timer. Further, when the setting of designated time coincides with the present time counted by the timer, mail data destinated to own station stored in the server of an ISP is obtained by calling an access point of the ISP.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus for accessing a server connected through a network and fetching data stored in the server, comprising:

setting means for setting a time for accessing the server based on inputted starting time data, terminating time data, and number of times data or time interval data;

storage means for storing the time setting by the setting means on a weekly basis or daily basis; and

control means for determining the time of accessing the server based on setting data stored in the storage means and the present day of the week or date, and fetching data stored in the server by accessing the server at the determined time.

2. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage means stores a time zone or date for inhibiting access to the server, and the control means makes no access to the server based on setting data stored in the storage means, in the access-inhibited time zone or date.

3. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage means sets and stores the access time on a day of the week basis or date basis for plural servers, and the control means gets access on the basis of the setting data stored in the storage means to each of the plural servers.

4. The communication apparatus of claim 2, wherein the storage means sets and stores an access-inhibited time zone or date for each of plural servers, and the control means accesses each of the plural servers according to the setting data stored in the storage means.

5. A communication apparatus for accessing a server connected through a network and fetching data stored in the server comprising:

setting means for determining an access time to the server on the basis of inputted starting time data, terminating time data, and number of times data or time interval data;

storage means for storing the time set by the setting means and a time zone for inhibiting access to the server; and

control means for determining the access time to the server on the basis of setting data stored in the storage means, and fetching data stored in the server by accessing the server at the determined time, and getting in the access-inhibited time zone, no access to the server on the basis of the setting data stored in the storage means.

6. The communication apparatus of claim 5, wherein the storage means stores the access time and the access-inhibited time zone for each of plural servers, and the control means determines the access time to each of the plural servers on the basis of the setting data stored in the storage means.

7. A communication apparatus for accessing a server connected through a network and fetching data stored in the server comprising:

setting means for determining an access time to the server on the basis of inputted starting time data, terminating time data and number of times data;

storage means for storing the time determined by the setting means; and

control means for accessing the server at the time stored in the storage means and fetching data stored in the server,

wherein the setting means determines the time for accessing the server by avoiding any access-inhibited time zones to the server when the access-inhibited time zones have been inputted.

8. The communication apparatus of claim 7, wherein the setting means determines the access time to each server by avoiding each inhibiting time zone inputted for each of the plural servers, and the control means accesses each of the plural servers on the basis of the setting data stored in the storage means.

9. A communication apparatus able to be connected to the Internet through a server connected through a public line network comprising:

recalling means for repeating a connecting request to a desired calling destination when no connection to this calling destination can be performed; and

setting means for individually setting a repeating interval of the connection request by the recalling means depending on when the desired calling destination is a server or not.

10. The communication apparatus of claim 9, wherein the setting means sets the repeating interval of the connecting request by the recalling means for every individual server when plural connectable servers exist.

11. A communication apparatus able to be connected to the Internet through a server connected through a public line network comprising:

automatic receiving means for fetching data stored in the server by periodically performing connection to the server; and

recalling means for repeating a connection request to a desired calling destination when no connection to this calling destination can be performed,

wherein in a repeating state of the connecting request to the desired calling destination, the recalling means stops the repetition of the connecting request to the desired calling destination being executed when the automatic receiving means is fetching the data.