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

• US 20170230525A1
• Filed: 02/02/2017
• Published: 08/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: SUGITA, HIKARU
• Granted Patent: US 10,136,016 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00925 Inhibiting an operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2191 for simultaneous, independent access by a plurality of different users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32502 in systems having a plurality of input or output devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32625 Fault detection
• 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

Facsimile data is received, the received facsimile data is stored in a storage, a preview image is generated, based on the facsimile data stored in the storage, and, in response to a request for a preview image from an external device, the generated preview image is transmitted to the external device. Although facsimile data stored in the storage is deleted from the storage, based on an instruction to delete the facsimile data, facsimile data corresponding to the preview image can no longer able to be deleted from the storage, in response to having received an instruction from the external device to display the preview image.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus being capable of performing facsimile communication, comprising:

at least one memory that stores a set of instructions; and

at least one processor that executes the instructions to;

receive facsimile data;

store the received facsimile data in a storage;

generate a preview image, based on the facsimile data stored in the storage;

transmit, in response to a request for a preview image from an external device, the preview image that was generated to the external device; and

delete, based on an instruction to delete facsimile data stored in the storage, the facsimile data from the storage,

wherein, in response to having received an instruction to display the preview image from the external device, facsimile data corresponding to the preview image is no longer able to be deleted from the storage.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in response to having received the instruction to display the preview image from the external device, deletion of facsimile data based on the deletion instruction from the external device is no longer executable.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor further executes the instructions to:

clock time in response to having received the instruction to display the preview image from the external device,

wherein the facsimile data corresponding to the preview image is able to be deleted from the storage, based on the clocked time.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor further executes the instructions to:

notify an error in response to having received the deletion instruction, when the facsimile data corresponding to the preview image is not able to be deleted from the storage.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor further executes the instructions to:

store the received facsimile data in the storage, in a case where memory reception for storing the received facsimile data in the storage is set,

wherein the memory reception setting is no longer cancelable, in response to having received the instruction to display the preview image from the external device.

6. A method of controlling a communication apparatus being capable of performing facsimile communication, the method comprising:

receiving facsimile data;

storing the received facsimile data in a storage;

generating a preview image, based on the facsimile data stored in the storage;

transmitting, in response to a request for a preview image from an external device, the preview image that was generated to the external device; and

deleting, based on an instruction to delete facsimile data stored in the storage, the facsimile data from the storage,

wherein, in response to having received an instruction to display the preview image from the external device, facsimile data corresponding to the preview image is no longer able to be deleted from the storage.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a processor to execute a method of controlling a communication apparatus being capable of performing facsimile communication, the method comprising:

receiving facsimile data;

storing the received facsimile data in a storage;

generating a preview image, based on the facsimile data stored in the storage;

transmitting, in response to a request for a preview image from an external device, the preview image that was generated to the external device; and

deleting, based on an instruction to delete facsimile data stored in the storage, the facsimile data from the storage,

wherein, in response to having received an instruction to display the preview image from the external device, facsimile data corresponding to the preview image is no longer able to be deleted from the storage.