COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150312044A1
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tonegawa, Nobuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 10,250,391 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures

Abstract

A transmitting side communication apparatus reads an image from an original, adds, in a case where an IFAX mode is selected, signature information related to a user and signature information related to the apparatus to an electronic mail, and adds, in a case where an electronic mail mode is selected, signature information related to the user to the electronic mail.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus having a first transmitting mode and a second transmitting mode for transmitting image data using an electronic mail, the apparatus comprising:

a selecting unit configured to select the first transmitting mode or the second transmitting mode; and

a controlling unit configured to control to transmit an electronic mail to which first signature information related to a user is added in a case where the first transmitting mode is selected by the selecting unit, and to transmit an electronic mail to which the first signature information and second signature information related to the communication apparatus are added in a case where the second transmitting mode is selected by the selecting unit.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit configured to set whether or not to add signature information to the electronic mail.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a generating unit configured to generate the second signature information using a mail address of the communication apparatus.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an encryption unit configured to encrypt the image data to be transmitted using the electronic mail.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first signature information and the second signature information is added to the electronic mail as a mail body.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first signature information is signature information related to the user which logs in the communication apparatus.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second transmitting mode is an Internet FAX mode.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to function as the communication apparatus according to claim 1.

8. A method of controlling a communication apparatus having a first transmitting mode and a second transmitting mode for transmitting image data using an electronic mail, the method comprising:

selecting the first transmitting mode or the second transmitting mode; and

controlling to transmit an electronic mail to which first signature information related to a user is added in a case where the first transmitting mode is selected by the selecting unit, and

controlling to transmit an electronic mail to which the first signature information and second signature information related to the communication apparatus are added in a case where the second transmitting mode is selected by the selecting unit.