Image forming device capable of acquiring data from web server
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1. An image forming device comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium;
a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a web server provided on a wide area network;
a data acquiring unit that acquires web data from the web server corresponding to a specified address via the communicating unit;
a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit;
a history data memory that stores history data indicating web data based on which the image forming unit has formed the images;
an identifying unit that identifies, based on the history data, whether or not the web data is of a type based on which the images have been formed previously; and
a determining unit that determines not to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit, if the identifying unit identifies that the web data is of the type based on which the images have been formed previously;
wherein the control unit prohibits the image forming unit from forming the images based on the web data when the determining unit determines that the images should not be formed based on the web data.
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Abstract
A facsimile device downloads data from a web server if a URL of the web server is not listed in an access prohibited database. If it is determined that the downloaded data is of the type for which image formation is prohibited, then a printing function is set to OFF. If the printing function is ON, then a display unit displays an outline of the downloaded data, enabling a user to determine whether or not the downloaded data should be printing out. If the user input a print instruction, then the downloaded data is printed out. On the other hand, if the user input a cancel instruction, then the downloaded data is not printed out.
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19 Claims
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1. An image forming device comprising:
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an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium; a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a web server provided on a wide area network; a data acquiring unit that acquires web data from the web server corresponding to a specified address via the communicating unit; a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit; a history data memory that stores history data indicating web data based on which the image forming unit has formed the images; an identifying unit that identifies, based on the history data, whether or not the web data is of a type based on which the images have been formed previously; and a determining unit that determines not to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit, if the identifying unit identifies that the web data is of the type based on which the images have been formed previously; wherein the control unit prohibits the image forming unit from forming the images based on the web data when the determining unit determines that the images should not be formed based on the web data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer-readable medium encoded with a control program of controlling an image forming device, the image forming device including an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium, a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a web server provided on a wide area network, a data acquiring unit that acquires web data from the web server corresponding to a specified address via the communicating unit, a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit, and a history data memory that stores history data indicating web data based on which the image forming unit has formed images, the program comprising instructions for:
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a) acquiring web data from the web server corresponding to the specified address via the communicating unit; b) identifying, based on the history data, whether or not the web data is of a type based on which images have been formed previously; c) determining not to form images based on the web data, acquired by the data acquiring unit, if the identifying instruction identifies that the web data is of the type based on which images have been formed previously; and d) prohibiting the image forming unit to form images based on the web data when it is determined in the program c) that images should not be formed based on the web data. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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18. A control method of controlling an image forming device, the image forming device including an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium, and-a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a web server provided on a wide area network, a data acquiring unit that acquires web data from the web server corresponding to a specified address via the communicating unit, a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit, and a history data memory that stores history data indicating web data based on which the image forming unit has formed images, the control method comprising the steps of:
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a) acquiring web data from the web server corresponding to the specified address via the communicating unit; b) identifying, based on the history data, whether or not the web data is of a type based on which the images have been formed previously; c) determining not to form the images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit, if the identifying step identifies that the web data is of the type based on which images have been formed previously; and d) prohibiting the image forming unit to form images based on the web data when it is determined in the step c) that images should not be formed based on the web data. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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