INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SERVER, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20130208310A1
• Filed: 01/29/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakashima, Kousuke
• Application Number:
  US13/752,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20130208310A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00095 Systems or arrangements for the transmission of the picture signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0074 Arrangements for the control of a still picture apparatus by the connected apparatus arrangements for the control of the connected apparatus by the still picture apparatus H04N2201/0013; control of image communication with the connected apparatus H04N2201/0015
• 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

Abstract

A server accepts a control request for an MFP from a mobile terminal via Internet, and executes control processing for the MFP that functions as a fax device via Internet in response to the accepted control request. Also, the server acquires information addressed to the mobile terminal, which has been received from the fax device to the MFP, from the MFP via Internet and register the acquired information. Then, the server transmits information addressed to the registered mobile terminal to the mobile terminal via Internet.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a server device; and

a fax device that communicates with the server device via a network,

wherein the server device comprises;

a request accepting unit configured to accept a control request for the fax device from a user device via the network;

a control processing unit configured to execute control processing for the fax device via the network in response to the accepted control request;

an information registering unit configured to acquire, from the fax device via the network, information addressed to the user device, which has been received from another fax device to the fax device, and register the acquired information; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit information addressed to the user device, which has been registered by the information registering unit, to the user device via the network.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein, when the control request accepted by the request accepting unit is a fax transmission request, the control processing unit generates a fax job in response to the fax transmission request and causes the fax device to execute the fax job.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the control processing unit generates a fax job including identification information about a user who operates a user device of the request source of the control request,

wherein the information registering unit acquires received fax information as information addressed to the user device, determines whether or not the received fax information includes the user identification information, and, when the received fax information includes the user identification information, the information registering unit registers the received fax information in association with the user identification information, and

wherein the server device further comprises a notifying unit configured to send a fax reception notification to the address of the user using the fact that the information registering unit has registered the received fax information in association with the user identification information as a trigger.

4. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein, when the received fax information does not include the user identification information, the information registering unit registers the received fax information in association with a fax device of the acquisition source of the received fax information, and

wherein the notifying unit sends a fax reception notification to an address common to users who use the fax device using the fact that the information registering unit has registered the received fax information in association with a fax device of the acquisition source of the received fax information as a trigger.

5. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the transmitting unit transmits screen information including the received fax information to the user device in response to a request from a user device operated by a user who has received the fax reception notification.

6. The information processing system according to claim 5, wherein the user device comprises:

a displaying unit configured to display a menu screen for making a control request for the fax device, which is adapted to edit a fax image corresponding to the received fax information included in screen information, based on the screen information received from the transmitting unit provided in the server device; and

a requesting unit configured to edit a fax image corresponding to the received fax information in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation on the menu screen and transmit a fax transmission request for instructing the transmission of the edited fax image to the fax device to the request accepting unit provided in the server device.

7. A method for controlling a fax device provided in a system comprising a server device and a fax device that communicates with the server device via a network, the method by the server device comprising:

accepting a control request for the fax device from a user device via the network;

executing control processing for the fax device via the network in response to the accepted control request;

acquiring, from the fax device via the network, information addressed to the user device, which has been received from another fax device to the fax device, and registering the acquired information; and

transmitting the registered information addressed to the user device to the user device via the network.

8. A non-transitory storage medium on which is stored a computer program for making a computer execute a method for controlling a fax device provided in a system comprising a server device and a fax device that communicates with the server device via a network, the method by the server device comprising:

accepting a control request for the fax device from a user device via the network;

executing control processing for the fax device via the network in response to the accepted control request;

acquiring, from the fax device via the network, information addressed to the user device, which has been received from another fax device to the fax device, and registering the acquired information; and

transmitting, by the server device, the registered information addressed to the user device to the user device via the network.

9. A server comprising:

a generating unit configured to generate a fax job including image information in which user identification information is embedded as visible information;

an acquiring unit configured to acquire the fax job; and

a notifying unit configured to provide a notification to a user corresponding to identification information included in the received image of the acquired fax job.