Network image forming apparatus system and a method of registering the image forming apparatus for use in a network
First Claim
1. A system for forming an image and communicating electronic mails, including a transmit mail and a receive mail, through a network, comprising:
- a server, that includes a transmit-mail storage for temporarily storing said transmit mail to be transmitted via said network, and a receive-mail storage for temporarily storing said receive mail received via said network; and
an image-forming apparatus, that includes a transceiver section for transmitting a transmit data set to be transmitted on said transmit mail and for receiving a receive data set received on said receive mail, and a data-processing section for processing said receive data set received by said transceiver section;
wherein said server is coupled to both said network and said image-forming apparatus, so as to communicate said transmit data set and said receive data set on said electronic mails through said network; and
wherein said image-forming apparatus further includes;
an operating section to input connecting data;
a connecting data storage to store said connecting data therein; and
a displaying section to display said connecting data inputted by said operating section; and
wherein, when said connecting data are inputted from said operating section and a confirmation-starting command, to start an operation for confirming connections between said server and said transceiver section, is activated, said data-processing section generates a connecting parameter according to said connecting data inputted by said operating section, and then, said transceiver section is electrically connected to both said transmit-mail storage and said receive-mail storage, both included in said server, by employing said connecting parameter; and
wherein said data-processing section determines whether or not said connecting data are effective by monitoring a connecting status between said transceiver section and said server, and sends first displaying data for displaying a result determined by said data-processing section to said displaying section, which displays said result on a displaying screen.
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Abstract
There is described a network image forming apparatus system including the image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a predetermined network. The system includes means for verifying to determine whether or not an image forming apparatus is capable of receiving electronic mail correctly; and means for displaying the result of this verification, and, if setting of a connection parameter is incorrect, displaying a particular item of incorrect setting and a way of correcting this incorrect setting; wherein self-transmission and reception is possible without being affected by delay in distribution of electronic mail to a mail server; the display means showing for a user a message indicating the necessity of rebooting if there is any change in the connection parameter requiring rebooting of the image forming apparatus.
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27 Claims
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1. A system for forming an image and communicating electronic mails, including a transmit mail and a receive mail, through a network, comprising:
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a server, that includes a transmit-mail storage for temporarily storing said transmit mail to be transmitted via said network, and a receive-mail storage for temporarily storing said receive mail received via said network; and
an image-forming apparatus, that includes a transceiver section for transmitting a transmit data set to be transmitted on said transmit mail and for receiving a receive data set received on said receive mail, and a data-processing section for processing said receive data set received by said transceiver section;
wherein said server is coupled to both said network and said image-forming apparatus, so as to communicate said transmit data set and said receive data set on said electronic mails through said network; and
wherein said image-forming apparatus further includes;
an operating section to input connecting data;
a connecting data storage to store said connecting data therein; and
a displaying section to display said connecting data inputted by said operating section; and
wherein, when said connecting data are inputted from said operating section and a confirmation-starting command, to start an operation for confirming connections between said server and said transceiver section, is activated, said data-processing section generates a connecting parameter according to said connecting data inputted by said operating section, and then, said transceiver section is electrically connected to both said transmit-mail storage and said receive-mail storage, both included in said server, by employing said connecting parameter; and
wherein said data-processing section determines whether or not said connecting data are effective by monitoring a connecting status between said transceiver section and said server, and sends first displaying data for displaying a result determined by said data-processing section to said displaying section, which displays said result on a displaying screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for registering an image-forming apparatus into a network of a system for forming an image and communicating electronic mails, including a transmit mail and a receive mail, through said network, and said system comprising a server that includes a transmit-mail storage for temporarily storing said transmit mail to be transmitted via said network and a receive-mail storage for temporarily storing said receive mail received via said network, and said image-forming apparatus that includes a transceiver section for transmitting a transmit data set to be transmitted on said transmit mail and for receiving a receive data set received on said receive mail and a data-processing section for processing said receive data set received by said transceiver section, said method comprising the steps of:
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inputting connecting data for generating a connecting parameter to connect said transceiver section with both said transmit-mail storage and said receive-mail storage of said server;
determining whether or not said connecting data are effective by monitoring a connecting status between said transceiver section and said server; and
displaying a first message indicating a result determined in said determining step on a displaying screen. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An apparatus for forming an image and having a function of communicating electronic mails, including a transmit mail and a receive mail, through a mail server equipped in a network system, comprising:
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a transceiver section to transmit a transmit data set to be transmitted on said transmit mail and to receive a receive data set received on said receive mail;
a data size detecting section to detect a data size of said receive data set, which is received and stored in a receive-mail storage provided in said mail server;
a data size determining section to determine whether or not said data size, detected by said data size detecting section, is larger than a predetermined data size; and
a controlling section to control said transceiver section so as to receive said receive data set of said receive mail when said data size determining section determines that said data size, detected by said data size detecting section, is not larger than a predetermined data size. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An apparatus for forming an image and having a function of communicating electronic mails, including a transmit mail and a receive mail, through a mail server equipped in a network system, comprising:
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a transceiver section to conduct a transmitting operation of said transmit mail and a receiving operation of said receive mail; and
a controlling section that determines whether or not a number of receive mails, received by said transceiver section, reaches to a predetermined number;
wherein said controlling section controls said transceiver section so as to deactivate said receiving operation of said receive mail when determining that said number of receive mails reaches to said predetermined number.
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23. An apparatus for forming an image and having a function of communicating electronic mails including predetermined command data through a network, operations of said apparatus being remote-controlled according to said predetermined command data sent from an external device, said apparatus comprising:
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a transceiver section to conduct transmitting/receiving operations of said electronic mails;
an identifying-information extracting section to extract identifying information from an electronic mail received by said transceiver section;
an authenticating section to authenticate said identifying information extracted by said identifying information extracting section;
a reference information storage to store reference information to be referred when said authenticating section authenticates said identifying information;
a command data extracting section to acquire said electronic mail including said identifying information authenticated by said authenticating section, in order to extract said predetermined command data from said electronic mail; and
a controlling section to control each of sections as needed, according to said predetermined command data extracted by said command data extracting section. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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