Document data transmission device, document data transmission reception system, and document data transmission method

• US 7,171,456 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2001
• Issued: 01/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Honma, Susumu, Osafune, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Najjar; Saleh
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOROBOV, VITALI A
• Application Number:
  US09/866,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20020143863A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,071 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/219, 709/231, 704/9, 455/12.1, 715/531, 715/513, 715/523, 715/800, 715/848, 715/514, 715/515, 715/713, 715/739, 715/907, 715/911, 380/246, 379/100.08, 707/1, 707/3, 707/4
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00103 specially adapted for radio transmission, e.g. via satellites H04N1/00098 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32771 in response to a request, e.g. for a particular document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32789 Details of handshaking H04N1/32793, H04N1/32795 and H04N1/32797 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/342 Accounting or charging based on content, e.g. charging for access to a particular document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3221 of a job number or identification, e.g. communication number
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3233 of authentication information, e.g. digital signature, watermark
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

The invention provides a document data transmission device to swiftly transmit information that a user needs. The document data transmission device includes a storage unit that stores plural document data pieces and plural summary data pieces including contents information, a page data transmission request receiving unit that receives a page data transmission request transmitted from a user terminal, a page data transmitting unit that transmits specific page data of specific document data to the user terminal through a satellite network on the basis of the page data transmission request, a summary data transmission request receiving unit that receives a summary data transmission request transmitted from the user terminal, and a summary data transmitting unit that transmits specific summary data to the user terminal, on the basis of the summary data transmission request.

Claims

1. A document data transmission device comprising:

storage means for storing plural documents including plural pages;

the storage means further storing plural summary data corresponding to the plural documents, each summary data including contents information showing which page contains what contents of information;

page data transmission request receiving means for receiving a page data transmission request transmitted from a user terminal, requesting to transmit a specific page contained in a specific document selected among the plural documents stored in the storage means;

page data transmitting means for transmitting the specific page contained in the specific document to the user terminal, on the basis of the page data transmission request received by the page data transmission request receiving means;

summary data transmission request receiving means for receiving summary data transmission request transmitted from the user terminal, requesting to transmit a specific summary data selected among the plural summary data stored in the storage means;

summary data selecting means for identifying and extracting the requested specific summary data among the plurality of summary data stored in the storage means based on the summary data transmission request; and

summary data transmitting means for transmitting the requested specific summary data to the user terminal, on the basis of the summary data transmission request received by the summary data transmission request receiving means, wherein the user terminal displays the specific summary data so that a user can select the specific page that includes contents of information of interest to the user.

2. The document data transmission device of claim 1, wherein each page corresponds to at least one of data to be printed out on a single sheet of recording paper and data to be viewed on a single screen of a display.

3. The document data transmission device of claim 1, wherein the page data includes at least one of text data and picture data.

4. A document data transmission device according to claim 1, further comprising:

billing amount calculating means for calculating a billing amount charged to a transmission of the specific page and to a transmission of the summary data, on the basis of a unit price charged to a transmission of a unit data quantity of the specific page and a unit price charged to a transmission of a unit data quantity of the summary data.

5. A document data transmission reception system comprising:

the document data transmission device according to claim 1; and

a user terminal for transmitting a page data transmission request requesting to transmit the specific page to the document data transmission device through a ground-based network and receiving the specific page transmitted from the document data transmission device through a satellite network.

6. A document data transmission reception system comprising:

the document data transmission device according to claim 1; and

a user terminal for transmitting a summary data transmission request requesting to transmit the specific summary data to the document data transmission device, and receiving the specific summary data transmitted from the document data transmission device.

11. The document data transmission reception system of claim 5, wherein the ground-based network comprises the Internet.

7. A document data transmission method for transmitting document data from a document data transmission device having storage means for storing plural documents including plural pages, the storage means further stores plural summary data corresponding to each of the plural documents, each summary data including contents information showing which page contains what contents of information, the method comprising:

receiving a page data transmission request transmitted from a user terminal, requesting to transmit a specific page contained in specific document selected among the plural documents stored in the storage means;

transmitting the specific page contained in the specific document to the user terminal, on the basis of the received page data transmission request;

receiving a summary data transmission request transmitted from the user terminal, requesting to transmit specific summary data selected among the plural summary data stored in the storage means;

identifying and extracting the requested specific summary data among the plurality of summary data stored in the storage means based on the summary data transmission request; and

transmitting the requested specific summary data to the user terminal, on the basis of the received summary data transmission request, wherein the user terminal displays the specific summary data so that a user can select the specific page that includes contents of information of interest to the user.

8. A document data transmission method according to claim 7, further comprising:

calculating a billing amount charged to a transmission of the specific page and to a transmission of the summary data, on the basis of a unit price charged to a transmission of a unit data quantity of the specific page and a unit price charged to a transmission of a unit data quantity of the summary data.

9. A document data transmission system comprising:

storage means for storing plural documents including one or plural pages and plural summary data including contents information of each of the plural document data pieces,

a user terminal for transmitting a page data transmission request requesting to transmit a specific page to the document data transmission device through a ground-based network,

page data transmission request receiving means for receiving the page data transmission request transmitted from a user terminal, requesting to transmit specific page data contained in specific document data selected among the plural document data pieces stored in the storage means

summary data selecting means for identifying and extracting the requested specific summary data among the plurality of summary data stored in the storage means based on the summary data transmission request; and

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page data transmitting means for transmitting the specific page data contained in the specific document data to the user terminal through a satellite network, on the basis of the page data transmission request received by the page data transmission request receiving means.

10. A document data transmission system of claim 9, further comprising:

summary data transmission request receiving means for receiving a summary data transmission request transmitted from the user terminal, requesting to transmit specific summary data selected among the plural summary data pieces stored in the storage means, and

summary data transmitting means for transmitting the specific summary data to the user terminal, on the basis of the summary data transmission request received by the summary data transmission request receiving means.