MULTI-FUNCTIONAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF STORING A TRANSMISSION LIST OF USERS IN THE SAME

• US 20060282673A1
• Filed: 06/07/2006
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Hyun-suk
• Granted Patent: US 8,510,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/176
• 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 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN

Abstract

A multi-functional device and a method of storing a transmission list of users in the same. The multi-functional device includes an authenticator to authenticate one or more users, a storage unit to store a transmission list of the authenticated users, a user interface to display the transmission list of the authenticated users, a controller to read the transmission list of the authenticated users stored in the storage unit and to control the user interface to display the read list, and a communication interface to transmit and receive data. The controller controls the communication interface to transmit and receive the data to/from a transmission address, which is selected from the displayed transmission list by the user interface. When a multi-functional device is used to transmit scanned data to an electronic mail address or an Internet address, the transmission address can be selected from a recently transmitted electronic mail address list or a recently transmitted Internet address list of authenticated users such that an address desired by a user can be set up instead of directly inputting the address. Accordingly, a transmission address list of users is managed, thereby preventing the transmission address list from being discarded or deleted by other people using the multi-functional device.

Claims

1. A multi-functional device that scans image data, comprising:

an authentication module to authenticate at least one user;

a control module to enable the at least one authenticated user to transmit the image data to at least one network address; and

a storage module to manage at least one transmission address list including the at least one network address.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the at least one authenticated user comprises a plurality of authenticated users and the storage module manages a plurality of lists of network addresses associated with each of the authenticated users.

3. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface module to display the at least one transmission address list including the at least one network address when the at least one user is authenticated.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface module to display a login window to authenticate the at least one user using at least one of an ID and a password.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the at least one network address comprises one or more of an email address, an Internet address, an Internet Protocol address, and a File Transfer Protocol address.

6. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface module to enable the at least one authenticated user to select from among a plurality of network address types and to display a list of network addresses that corresponds to the selected network address type.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the user interface module enables the at least one authorized user to browse the displayed list of network addresses and select a target address to which the image data is to be transmitted.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the storage module stores a plurality of network addresses in the at least one transmission address list in an order beginning with a most recent network address to which the image data is transmitted.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the control module updates the at least one transmission address list including the at least one network address each time the at least one authenticated user transmits the image data.

10. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface module to enable the at least one authenticated user to add a network address to the stored at least one transmission address list.

11. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a printer to print the image data;

a fax to transmit the image data over a network to another fax;

a scanner to scan a document to obtain the image data; and

a communication interface to transmit the image data to the at least one network address.

12. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a scanner module to scan a document to obtain the image data; and

a user interface module to enable the at least one authenticated user to browse the at least one transmission address list to select at least one target address to which the image data is to be transmitted.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the storage module manages the at least one transmission address list by creating, storing, and/or updating the at least one transmission address list.

14. A multi-functional device, comprising:

a scanner module to obtain image data from a document; and

a control module to manage a first list of users authenticated in the device and at least one second list of recently transmitted addresses to which the scanned image data is transmitted.

15. A user interface of a multi-functional device, the interface comprising:

an authentication portion to authenticate a user in the device; and

a recently transmitted selection portion to enable the authenticated user to select one or more target addresses from a plurality of recently transmitted addresses in a list to which image data has been transmitted.

16. The interface of claim 15, further comprising:

a transmission method selection portion to enable the authenticated user to select a transmission method to be used to transmit the image data to the one or more of the selected target addresses.

17. A method of managing network addresses in a multi-functional device that scans image data, the method comprising:

authenticating at least one user;

enabling the at least one authenticated user to transmit the scanned image data from the multi-functional device to at least one network address; and

maintaining at least one transmission address list including the at least one network address.

18. A method of managing a multi-functional device, the method comprising:

scanning image data from a document; and

maintaining a first list of users authenticated in the device and at least one second list of recently transmitted addresses to which the scanned image data has been transmitted.

19. A method of managing a multi-functional device, the method comprising:

managing history information of a predetermined class of users of the device; and

enabling the predetermined class of users to access the history information and to transmit scanned image data to one or more target network addresses based on the accessed history information.

20. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute a method of storing a transmission address list of users in a multi-functional device, the medium comprising:

an executable code to authenticate one or more users;

an executable code to browse a recently transmitted address list of the authenticated users;

an executable code to select a transmission address from the list of authenticated users; and

an executable code to transmit scanned data to the selected transmission address.