Server device having electronic bulletin board function

• US 20040246531A1
• Filed: 05/13/2004
• Published: 12/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Original Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Inventors: Tanimoto, Yoshifumi, Eguchi, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US10/844,444
• Publication Number:
  US 20040246531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/400
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32037 Automation of particular transmitter jobs, e.g. multi-address calling, auto-dialing

Abstract

When a user clicks and references a title from titles displayed in a thread on an electronic bulletin board, a control unit instructs an electronic bulletin board information generating unit to generate electronic bulletin board information including a main text and an image of a comment and transmits the electronic bulletin board information to a user terminal. When the user sends a reply of a new image or an edited image, identification information is provided to the transmitted image and the image is stored in an image storage unit. In addition, link information that links the image to the original image is transmitted to an image data version information management unit. In this case, when there is no reply of a comment, the control unit instructs an automatic comment generating unit to generate a comment of a reply of the new image or the edited image. The comment is stored in a comment storage unit and the comment link information is transmitted to a comment link information management unit.

Claims

1. A server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

an image storage unit that stores image data;

a comment storage unit that stores text data as a comment relating to the image data;

an automatic comment generating unit that generates a comment indicating a reception of a reply of edited image data for the image data stored in the image storage unit and stores the comment in the comment storage unit when receiving the reply of the edited image data for the image data stored in the image storage unit; and

an electronic bulletin board generating unit that generates electronic bulletin board information including the generated comment and the edited image data or shortcut information to the comment and the image data.

2. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image data version information management unit that manages a version of the image data stored in the image storage unit.

3. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a differential image information storage unit that stores edited information as differential image information for the image data.

4. A server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

an image storage unit that stores image data;

a comment storage unit that stores text data as a comment relating to the image data;

an automatic comment generating unit that generates a comment indicating that image data is registered newly when image data is registered newly in the image storage unit; and

an electronic bulletin board generating unit that generates electronic bulletin board information including the generated comment and the newly registered image data or shortcut information to the comment and the image data.

5. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 4, further comprising:

a facsimile receiving unit that receives image data;

wherein the received image data is newly registered.

6. A server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

an image storage unit that stores image data;

a comment storage unit that stores text data as a comment relating to the image data;

an electronic bulletin board generating unit that generates electronic bulletin board information in accordance with the image data and the text data; and

a control unit that displays on the electronic bulletin board generating unit, a thread display of comments and a list display of image data included in a selected thread.

7. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 6, wherein the control unit generates electronic bulletin board information focused on original image data of the selected thread among the list-displayed image data.

8. A server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

a comment storage unit that stores text data as a comment by a unit of threads;

an image storage unit that stores image data attached to the comment; and

a file composing unit that selects image data or text data attached to a specific thread or comment and composes the selected image data or text data as a file.

9. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 8, wherein the file composing unit converts text data by a designated font and composes the text data.

10. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 8, wherein the file composed by composing the image data or the text data attached to the specific thread or comment by the file composing unit is displayed in a thumbnail list on an electronic bulletin board.

11. The server device having the electronic bulletin board function according to claim 8, wherein the file composing unit generates Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) data of a thread index by a unit of threads, HTML data of text data and image data, and packages all of the data into one file.

12. A document forwarding method of a document management server device comprising the steps of:

retrieving a document of an application of a forwarder in the document management server device;

converting key information of the application of the forwarder of the document into key information of an application of a forwarding destination; and

forwarding the document including the converted key information as a document of the application of the forwarding destination.

13. A document management server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

an electronic bulletin board unit that handles an image file and a text file as a posting document;

a facsimile unit that receives a document; and

a key information conversion unit that stores key information of a document and reciprocally converts each key information;

wherein when the document received by the facsimile unit is forwarded to the electronic bulletin board unit, the key information conversion unit converts key information of the received document into key information of an electronic bulletin board in accordance with communication information.

14. A document management server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

an image storage unit that stores image data;

a comment storage unit that stores text data as a comment relating to the image data;

an electronic bulletin board unit that handles the image data and the text data as a posting document;

a stylized comment storage unit that stores a stylized comment corresponding to a category of an electronic bulletin board;

a facsimile receiving unit that receives image data; and

a control unit that retrieves a stylized comment from the stylized comment storage unit according to the category of the image data when the image data is forwarded to the image storage unit, and stores the retrieved comment in the comment storage unit.

15. A document management server device having an electronic bulletin board function comprising:

an image storage unit that stores image data;

a comment storage unit that stores text data as a comment corresponding to the image data;

an electronic bulletin board unit that handles the image data and the text data as a posting document;

a category storage unit that stores categories of an electronic bulletin board; and

a selecting unit that designates one of the categories stored in the category storage unit when forwarding the image data to the electronic bulletin board unit, and selects whether to make a new registration or to send a reply to the electronic bulletin board.