Network system, data processing device, and data transmission device

• US 20070041048A1
• Filed: 08/18/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Suzuki, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US11/505,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20070041048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00217 only involving computer data transmission protocols, e.g. SMTP, WAP or HTTP communication protocol aspects and techniques in packet data networks H04L69/00; network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32641 of transmission or transmitted data, e.g. interruption or wrong number of pages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32662 remotely, e.g. to the transmitter from the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/002 Selecting or switching between an image communication channel and a non-image communication channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0091 Digital copier; digital 'photocopier' H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence

Abstract

A network system comprising a data processing device with a communication circuit connected to a telecommunication line, and a communication device internally communicably connected to the data processing device via a network is provided. The data processing device is provided with a receiver system to receive mail data transmitted from a data transmitting device via the communication circuit and a transferring system to internally communicate with the communication device to transfer the mail data transmitted from the receiver system to the communication device via the network.

Claims

1. A network system comprising;

a data processing device with a communication circuit connected to a telecommunication line; and

a communication device internally communicably connected to the data processing device via a network,

wherein the data processing device is provided with;

a receiver system to receive mail data transmitted from a data transmitting device via the communication circuit; and

a transferring system to internally communicate with the communication device to transfer the mail data transmitted from the receiver system to the communication device via the network.

2. The network system according to claim 1, further comprising a mail server which is internally communicably connected with the data processing device and the communication device via the network,

wherein the transferring system transfers the mail data to the communication device via the mail server.

3. The network system according to claim 2,

wherein the mail server is provided with a transmission system which transmits error information to the data processing device when the transferring system fails in transferring the mail data to the communication device,

wherein the data processing device is provided with:

a network interface, which connects the data processing device with the Internet;

a return data generating system, which generates return mail data by removing message data from the mail data received by the receiver system and adding an error notifying message when the error information is received by the data processing device; and

a returning system, which returns the return mail data generated by the return data generating system to the data transmitting device that transmitted the mail device via the Internet.

4. The network system according to claim 1,

wherein the receiver system is provided with a function as a mail server, and

wherein the transferring system transfers the mail data transmitted from the receiver system to the communication device via the network.

5. The network system according to claim 4,

wherein the data processing device is provided with:

a network interface, which connects the data processing device with the Internet;

a return data generating system, which generate return mail data by removing message data from the mail data received by the receiver system and adding an error notifying message when the transferring system fails in transferring the mail data to the communication device; and

a returning system, which returns the return mail data generated by the return data generating system to the data transmitting device that transmitted the mail device via the Internet.

6. The network system according to claim 1,

wherein the data processing device is provided with:

a domain address storing unit, in which a domain address of the data processing device is stored;

a judging system, which obtains a domain address of the communication device as a destination from the mail data received by the receiver system and determines as to whether the domain address of the communication device as the destination corresponds to the domain address of the data processing device stored in the domain address storing unit; and

a prohibiting system, which prohibits the transferring system to transfer the mail data to the communication device when the judging system determines that the domain address of the communication device as the destination does not correspond to the domain address of the data processing device.

7. The network system according to claim 4,

wherein the data processing device is provided with:

a domain address storing unit, in which a domain address of the data processing device is stored;

a judging system, which obtains a domain address of the communication device as a destination from the mail data received by the receiver system and determines as to whether the domain address of the communication device as the destination corresponds to the domain address of the data processing device stored in the domain address storing unit; and

a prohibiting system, which prohibits the transferring system to transfer the mail data to the communication device when the judging system determines that the domain address of the communication device as the destination does not correspond to the domain address of the data processing device.

8. A data processing device connected to a communication device via a network, comprising:

a communication circuit, which is connected to a telecommunication line and converts data;

a receiver system, which receives mail data transmitted from a data transmitting device via the communication circuit; and

a transferring system, which internally communicates with the communication device to transfer the mail data transmitted from the receiver system to the communication device via the network.

9. A data transmitting device, comprising:

a storing unit, in which a mail address identifying a communication device as a destination of mail data and a number sequence identifying a data processing device whereto the mail data is transmitted via a telecommunication line are associated with each other to be stored therein;

a specifying system, wherein the mail address as the destination to transmit the mail data is specified;

a number sequence obtaining system, which obtains the number sequence corresponding to the mail address specified in the specifying system; and

a mail data transmission system, which transmits the mail data to the communication device via the data processing device being identified by the number sequence obtained by the number sequence obtaining system.

10. The data transmitting device according to claim 9, further comprising:

a confidentiality specifying system, which is communicable with the communication device via the Internet and in which confidentiality of the mail data is specified,

wherein the mail data transmission system transmits the mail data to the communication device via the data processing device when the mail data is specified to contain confidential information in the confidentiality specifying system and transmits the mail data to the communication device via the Internet when the mail data is specified not to contain confidential information in the confidentiality specifying system.