Gateway apparatus and network system

• US 20050027792A1
• Filed: 08/31/2004
• Published: 02/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogura, Kazuhiro, Iwase, Akinori, Haraguchi, Tatsuya
• Application Number:
  US10/929,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20050027792A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

In a network system, only text data is displayed on a portable telephone when access is made to a page which is made public on the Internet by use of the portable telephone. An image of the page and information indicating a URL of the page are stored into a predetermined folder according to an instruction for storage of the page from the portable telephone based on the operation by the user.

Claims

1. A network system having a server and an image forming apparatus, characterized in that the server comprises:

first communication means for interfacing with a mobile terminal;

second communication means for acquiring data of a page which is made public on a network in response to a request from the first communication means for acquiring a page which is made public on the network; and

control means for storing data of a page acquired by the second communication means in the predetermined storage location where the mobile terminal instructs storage of data of the page and the image forming apparatus comprises;

third communication means for acquiring data of the page acquired by the server from the network, from the storage location; and

printing means for printing on an image forming medium based on the data of page acquired by the third communication means.

2. A network system according to claim 1, wherein the control means further extracts data that can be displayed by the mobile terminal from the data of the page acquired by the second communication means and transmits it to the mobile terminal using the first communication means.

3. A network system according to claim 1, wherein the server further comprises storage means for storing information in relation to the mobile terminal,

the control means further executes authentication processing on the mobile terminal, on the basis of authentication data supplied by the first communication means from the mobile terminal and information stored in the storage means, and

when the control means stores the data of the page, the control means judges a storage location corresponding to the mobile terminal authenticated by the authentication processing based on the storage means, and stores the data of the page in the storage location.

4. A network system according to claim 1, wherein the control means stores access information to the page in the storage location, together with the data of page acquired from the network,

the image forming apparatus further comprises operating means into which a user inputs instructions for operation,

the printing means prints data of the page stored in the storage location where print of data of a stored page is instructed by the operating means, and

the printing means prints the present page, accessing the present page in accordance with the access information stored in the storage location, the printing of the present page among the pages stored in the storage location being instructed by the operating means.

5. A network system according to claim 1, wherein the control means optimizes the data of the page acquired by the network and storing the data in the storage location.

6. A network system according to claim 1, wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises image processing means for optimizing the data of the page acquired from the network.

7. A network system according to claim 1, further comprising storage means for storing user information,

wherein, when acquiring data from the storage location, user authentication is executed based on user information stored in the storage means and information input by the user.