COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS

• US 20070188797A1
• Filed: 02/05/2007
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: TERAO, Yoshihide
• Application Number:
  US11/671,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20070188797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• 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 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• 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 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3207 of an address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3209 of a telephone number
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3236 Details of authentication information generation

Abstract

A communication apparatus acquires sender information indicating a sender of a received document, converts that document into a document of a specific format, adds the sender information to the document of the specific format, and transfers that document of the specific format to a transfer destination.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus for receiving a document that has been sent, comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire sender information indicating the sender of the document;

a conversion unit configured to convert the document from one file type into another file type;

an addition unit configured to add the sender information acquired by said acquisition unit to the document of the specific format, converted by said conversion unit; and

a transfer unit configured to transfer the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added by said addition unit, to a transfer destination.

2. A communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sender information includes an email address of the sender of the received document.

3. A communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sender information includes a telephone number of a terminal device that the sender used to send the received document.

4. A communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a setting unit configured to set transfer condition data indicating a condition for transferring a document, transfer destination data indicating the transfer destination of the document, and transfer file type data indicating the file type of the document to be transferred; and

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data,

wherein said conversion unit converts into data of the file type indicated by the transfer file type data, and

said transfer unit, in a case that the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data, transfers the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added by said addition unit, to the transfer destination indicated by the transfer destination data.

20. A communication apparatus according claim 1, wherein said addition unit is arranged to add the sender information to the document of the specific format by adding the sender information to property information of the document of the specific format.

5. A communication apparatus for receiving a document that has been sent, comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire sender information indicating the sender of the document;

a conversion unit configured to convert the document into a document of a specific format;

an addition unit configured to add the sender information acquired by said acquisition unit to the document of the specific format converted by said conversion unit;

an electronic signature unit configured to generate an electronic signature corresponding to the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added, using a secret key and a public key certificate that corresponds to the secret key; and

a transfer unit configured to transfer the document of the specific format to which the electronic signature generated by said electronic signature unit is added, to a transfer destination.

6. A communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the sender information includes the mail address of the sender of the received document.

7. A communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the sender information includes a telephone number of a terminal device that the sender used to send the received document.

8. A communication apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a setting unit configured to set transfer condition data indicating a condition for transferring a document, transfer destination data indicating the transfer destination of the document, and transfer file type data indicating the file type of the document to be transferred; and

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data,

wherein said conversion unit converts into data of the file type indicated by the transfer file type data, and

said transfer unit, in a case that the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data, transfers the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added, to the transfer destination indicated by the transfer destination data.

9. A communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said electronic signature unit generates an electronic signature in a case that the received document is encrypted.

10. A method for controlling communication in a communication apparatus for receiving a document that has been sent, the method comprising:

an acquisition step of acquiring sender information indicating the sender of the document;

a conversion step of converting the document from one file type into another file type;

an addition step of adding the sender information acquired in said acquisition step to the document of a specific format converted in said conversion step; and

a transfer step of transferring the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added in said addition step, to a transfer destination.

11. A method for controlling communication according to claim 10, wherein the sender information includes an email address of the sender of the received document.

12. A method for controlling communication according to claim 10, wherein the sender information includes a telephone number of a terminal device that the sender used to send the received document.

13. A method for controlling communication in a communication apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a setting step of setting transfer condition data indicating a condition for transferring a document, transfer destination data indicating the transfer destination of the document, and transfer file type data indicating the file type of the document to be transferred; and

a determination step of determining whether or not the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data,

wherein in said conversion step, conversion into data of the file type indicated by the transfer file type data is performed, and

in said transfer step, in a case that the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data, transfers the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added, to the transfer destination indicated by the transfer destination data.

19. A program that, when run on a computer, allows the computer to perform a method according to claim 10.

14. A method for controlling communication in a communication apparatus for receiving a document that has been sent, the method comprising:

an acquisition step of acquiring sender information indicating the sender of the document;

a conversion step of converting the document into a document of a specific format;

an addition step of adding the sender information acquired in said acquisition step to the document of a specific format converted in said conversion step;

an electronic signature step of generating an electronic signature corresponding to the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added in said addition step, using a secret key and a public key certificate that corresponds to the secret key; and

a transfer step of transferring the document of the specific format to which the electronic signature generated in said electronic signature step is added, to a transfer destination.

15. A method for controlling communication according to claim 14, wherein the sender information includes the mail address of the sender of the received document.

16. A method for controlling communication according to claim 14, wherein the sender information includes a telephone number of a terminal device that the sender used to send the received document.

17. A method for controlling communication in a communication apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising:

a setting step of setting transfer condition data indicating a condition for transferring a document, transfer destination data indicating the transfer destination of the document, and transfer file type data indicating the file type of the document to be transferred; and

a determination step of determining whether or not the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data,

wherein in said conversion step, conversion into data of the file type indicated by the transfer file type data is performed, and

in said transfer step, in a case that the received document satisfies the transfer condition indicated by the transfer condition data, transfers the document of the specific format to which the sender information is added, to the transfer destination indicated by the transfer destination data.

18. The method for controlling communication according to claim 14, wherein said electronic signature step generates an electronic signature in a case that the received document is encrypted.