Status processing system, status processor, and status displaying method

• US 8,028,244 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2008
• Issued: 09/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Uno, Fumitoshi, Takahashi, Yusaku, Nakamura, Tomoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Do; Chat
• Assistant Examiner(s): TITCOMB, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US12/035,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: 715/772, 715/733, 709/201
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5087 for receiving image data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

A status processor is communicable with a host device via a network. The processor includes a media connecting unit, a status-reflecting filename setting unit, and a server unit. The media connecting unit is capable of connecting a storage media. The status-reflecting filename setting unit sets a status-reflecting filename corresponding to a status of the processor or the storage media. The server unit transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device.

Claims

1. A status processor communicable with a host device via a network and with a storage media, the processor comprising:

a media connecting unit that is configured to connect to the storage media;

a status-reflecting filename setting unit that sets a status-reflecting filename of a file corresponding to a status of the storage media;

a server unit that transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device; and

a storing portion which stores directory data indicating a prescribed directory, the prescribed directory being treated to include the file having the status-reflecting filename,

the server unit transmits the data indicating the existence of the file to the host device, the file having the status-reflecting filename, if the host device requests a content of the prescribed directory, and

wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename without storing the file having the status-reflecting filename in the storage media, wherein an FTP is used for communication between the server unit and the host unit and displaying the data on a displaying unit of the host device.

2. The status processor according to claim 1, wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename indicating whether the storage media is available.

3. The status processor according to claim 2, wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename indicating a connecting status of the storage medium to the media connecting unit.

4. The status processor according to claim 2, wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename indicating a format status of the storage media.

5. The status processor according to claim 1, wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename indicating a capacity of the storage media.

6. The status processor according to claim 5, wherein the capacity of the storage media includes a total capacity of the storage media and a remaining capacity of the storage media.

7. The status processor according to claim 1, wherein the media connecting unit comprises a plurality of media connecting portions,

wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename indicating a status of one of the plurality of media connecting portions or a status of the storage medium connected to one of the plurality of media connecting portions.

8. The status processor according to claim 1, wherein the media connecting unit is capable of connecting a plurality of types of storage media, and

wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename specifying one type of the plurality of types of storage media.

9. The status processor according to claim 1, further comprising a status-reflecting data setting unit that sets status-reflecting data corresponding to a status of the processor or the storage media and corresponding to the status-reflecting filename,

wherein the server unit transmits the status-reflecting data to the host device in response to a request for accessing to the file having the status-reflecting filename.

10. The status processor according to claim 9, wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename identifying a format of the status-reflecting data.

11. The status processor according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving unit that receives print data transmitted via the network;

and

a printing unit that prints the print data.

12. A status processing system comprising:

a host device comprising a displaying unit; and

a processor that is communicable with the host device via a network, the processor comprising;

a media connecting unit that is configured to connect to a storage media;

a status-reflecting filename setting unit that sets a status-reflecting filename of a file corresponding to a status of the storage media;

a server unit that transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device; and

a storing portion which stores directory data indicating a prescribed directory, the prescribed directory being treated to include the file having the status-reflecting filename,

wherein the server unit transmits the data indicating the existence of the file to the host device, the file having the status-reflecting filename, if the host device requests a content of the prescribed directory,

wherein the status-reflecting filename setting unit sets the status-reflecting filename without storing a file having the status-reflecting filename in the storage media, and

wherein an FTP is used for communication between the server unit and the host unit and displaying the data on the displaying unit.

13. A status displaying method using a host device and a processor communicable with the host device via a network, the host device comprising a display unit, the processor comprising a media connecting unit that is configured to connect to a storage media, the status displaying method comprising:

setting a status-reflecting filename in the processor, corresponding to a status of the storage media without storing a file having the status-reflecting filename in the storage media;

storing directory data in the processor, indicating a prescribed directory, the prescribed directory including a file having the status-reflecting filename;

transmitting data by the processor, indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device, the file having the status-reflecting filename, if the host device requests a content of the prescribed directory, wherein an FTP is used for communication between the server unit and the host unit; and

displaying the data on the displaying unit.