INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

• US 20180046534A1
• Filed: 10/12/2017
• Published: 02/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Shigetaka, KOJIMA, Atsushi, MATSUMOTO, Hideto, OHARA, Kiyotaka
• Granted Patent: US 10,180,870 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/121 Facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/026 using e-messaging for transporting management information, e.g. email, instant messaging or chat
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/28 Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

A network device includes a processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the network device to perform: storing a first mail address and a second mail address; generating a first email to be addressed to the first mail address and a second email to be addressed to the second mail address, the first email having a first body including a URL, the second email having a second body including the URL; detecting a specific failure occurring in the network device; transmitting the first email to the first mail address and the second email to the second mail address when the specific failure is detected.

Claims

1. A network device comprising:

a printing mechanism;

a web server including registration page data representing a registration page, wherein the registration page includes a first field in which email address is to be input and a second field in which at least one condition is to be selected from a plurality of conditions associated with the printing mechanism, and the plurality of conditions includes at least two conditions of a paper size error, a lack of a consumable, an empty of a consumable, a near empty of a consumable, a cover open, a consumable error, a printer error, and a job error;

a processor; and

a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the network device to perform;

providing the registration page data to a first terminal device;

in response to being operated on the registration page at the first terminal device, registering, in the memory, a first email address and a first condition selected from the plurality of conditions;

detecting the first condition in the network device;

transmitting a first email having a first body including a first UniformResource Locator to the first email address corresponding to the first condition in a case where the first condition is detected.

2. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first email is received by a second terminal device, and

wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the network device to perform transmitting a web page to the second terminal device in a case where the network device is accessed by the second terminal device.

3. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first email includes condition identifying information identifying the first condition.

4. The network device according to claim 3, wherein the condition identifying information is included in the first body.

5. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first email includes device identifying information for identifying the network device.

6. The network device according to claim 5, wherein the device identifying information is included in the first body.

7. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first email is received by a second terminal device, and

wherein the first Uniform Resource Locator is used for displaying a web page related to the network device on a display of the second terminal device.

8. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first email is received by a second terminal device, and

wherein the first Uniform Resource Locator is used for displaying a web page including a current condition of the network device on a display of the second terminal device.

9. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first email is received by a second terminal device, and

wherein the first Uniform Resource Locator is used for displaying a web page related to the first condition on a display of the second terminal device.

10. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the first Uniform Resource Locator comprises characters including an IP address of the network device.

11. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the network device to perform:

in response to being operated on the registration page at the first terminal device, registering, in the memory, a second email address and a second condition selected from the plurality of conditions, wherein the second condition is different from the first condition;

detecting the second condition in the network device; and

transmitting a second email having a second body including a second Uniform Resource Locator to the second email address corresponding to the second condition in a case where the second condition is detected, wherein the second email is different from the first email.

12. The network device according to claim 11, wherein the second email address is different from the first email address.

13. The network device according to claim 11, wherein the second Uniform Resource Locator is different from the first Uniform Resource Locator.

14. The network device according to claim 1, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the network device to perform:

in response to being operated on the registration page at the first terminal device, registering a third email address in the memory, wherein the third email address is different from the first email address; and

transmitting the first email having the first body including the first Uniform Resource Locator to the third email address corresponding to the first condition in the case where the first condition is detected.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for a network device, when executed by a processor of the network device, causing the network device to perform:

providing a registration page data to a first terminal device, wherein the registration page data is included in a web server of the network device, the registration page data represents a registration page, the registration page includes a first field in which email address is to be input and a second field in which at least one condition is to be selected from a plurality of conditions associated with a printing mechanism of the network device, and the plurality of conditions includes at least two conditions of a paper size error, a lack of a consumable, an empty of a consumable, a near empty of a consumable, a cover open, a consumable error, a printer error, and a job error;

in response to being operated on the registration page at the first terminal device, registering, in a memory of the network device, a first email address and a first condition selected from the plurality of conditions;

detecting the first condition in the network device;

transmitting a first email having a first body including a first Uniform Resource Locator to the first email address corresponding to the first condition in a case where the first condition is detected.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the first email is received by a second terminal device, and

wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the network device to perform transmitting a web page to the second terminal device in a case where the network device is accessed by the second terminal device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the first email includes condition identifying information identifying the first condition.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the first email includes device identifying information for identifying the network device.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the first Uniform Resource Locator comprises characters including an IP address of the network device.

20. A method for controlling a network device comprising a printing mechanism, and a web server including registration page data representing a registration page, wherein the registration page includes a first field in which email address is to be input and a second field in which at least one condition is to be selected from a plurality of conditions associated with the printing mechanism, and the plurality of conditions includes at least two conditions of a paper size error, a lack of a consumable, an empty of a consumable, a near empty of a consumable, a cover open, a consumable error, a printer error, and a job error, the method comprising:

providing the registration page data to a first terminal device;

in response to being operated on the registration page at the first terminal device, registering, in a memory of the network device, a first email address and a first condition selected from the plurality of conditions;

detecting the first condition in the network device;

transmitting a first email having a first body including a first Uniform Resource Locator to the first email address corresponding to the first condition in a case where the first condition is detected.