Image forming apparatus

• US 20060033950A1
• Filed: 07/18/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakamura, Mitsuo
• Application Number:
  US11/182,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20060033950A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00344 with a management, maintenance, service or repair apparatus monitoring H04N1/00002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32106 separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0091 Digital copier; digital 'photocopier' H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3202 of communication or activity log or report
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3219 of a job status, e.g. successful execution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3221 of a job number or identification, e.g. communication number
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

An image forming apparatus that has at least a facsimile communication function, includes an RSS-data creating unit that creates RSS data, that is data in RSS format, from a local communication history; and a communicating unit that transmits the RSS data created to a request source, based on a request, via a network.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus that has at least a facsimile communication function, comprising:

an RSS-data creating unit that creates RSS data, that is data in RSS format, from a local communication history; and

a communicating unit that transmits the RSS data created to a request source, based on a request, via a network.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

apart from the local communication history, the RSS-data creating unit creates the RSS data from at least one of a local job history, a local access history, a local memory-usage status, and a local account status.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving unit that receives, from a server, the RSS data of the local communication history;

a comparing unit that compares the RSS data received with an RSS data that was received at a previous time; and

a printing unit that prints an update information that is a result of the comparison.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving unit that receives, from a server, the RSS data of the local communication history;

a comparing unit that compares the RSS data received with an RSS data that was received at a previous time;

an acquiring unit that acquires data of a target link related to an update information that is a result of the comparison; and

a printing unit that prints the data acquired.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving unit that receives, from a server, the RSS data of the local communication history;

a comparing unit that compares the RSS data received with an RSS data that was received at a previous time; and

a transmitting unit that transmits update information that is a result of the comparison, to a destination specified.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving unit that receives, from a server, the RSS data of the local communication history;

a comparing unit that compares the RSS data received with an RSS data that was received at a previous time;

an acquiring unit that acquires data of a target link related to an update information that is a result of the comparison; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the data acquired to a destination specified.

7. A method of managing a plurality of image forming apparatuses that have at least a facsimile communication function, comprising:

reading local communication history of an image forming apparatus;

creating RSS data from the local communication history; and

transmitting the RSS data to a request source via a network.