Transfer-side facsimile machine, facsimile communication system and reception-side facsimile machine

• US 9,307,099 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2015
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Madelein
• Application Number:
  US14/668,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281472A1
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00095 Systems or arrangements for the transmission of the picture signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32789 Details of handshaking H04N1/32793, H04N1/32795 and H04N1/32797 take precedence

Abstract

A multifunctional machine includes a facsimile communication portion and a control portion that makes the facsimile communication portion transfer facsimile data to a reception-side facsimile machine. When the facsimile communication portion starts to perform communication for data transfer with the reception-side facsimile machine, the facsimile communication portion receives, from the reception-side facsimile machine, a reception allowance/rejection signal in conformity with a facsimile communication protocol. When the control portion indicates the reception allowance of the transfer of the reception allowance/rejection signal, the facsimile communication portion is made to transfer the facsimile data to the reception-side facsimile machine.

Claims

1. A transfer-side facsimile machine comprising:

a transfer-side facsimile communication portion that performs facsimile communication;

a transfer-side control portion that controls transfer, to a reception-side facsimile machine, of facsimile data which is received from another facsimile machine and which is a target to be transferred to the reception-side facsimile machine; and

a data transfer setting portion that, when the transfer-side facsimile machine receives a reception allowance/rejection signal,

sets the transfer-side facsimile machine to a data transfer mode if the reception allowance/rejection signal indicates reception allowance of the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred and

cancels the data transfer mode of the transfer-side facsimile machine if the reception allowance/rejection signal indicates reception rejection,

the reception allowance/rejection signal being a signal which is received based on calling of the reception-side facsimile machine, which indicates a detail of reception allowance/rejection of facsimile data transferred from the transfer-side facsimile machine, and which uses a communication signal in a previously determined facsimile communication protocol,

wherein when the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred to the reception-side facsimile machine is received from the other facsimile machine in the data transfer mode, the transfer-side control portion makes the transfer-side facsimile communication portion transfer the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred to the reception-side facsimile machine, and

when the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred to the reception-side facsimile machine is received from the other facsimile machine outside the data transfer mode, the transfer-side control portion makes an image formation portion print the facsimile data received from the other facsimile machine.

2. The transfer-side facsimile machine according to claim 1,

wherein when the reception allowance/rejection signal received by the transfer-side facsimile communication portion indicates the reception rejection of the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred, the transfer-side control portion makes the transfer-side facsimile communication portion complete the communication with the reception-side facsimile machine.

3. The transfer-side facsimile machine according to claim 1,

wherein when the transfer-side facsimile communication portion receives the facsimile data, the transfer-side control portion

makes the transfer-side facsimile communication portion call the reception-side facsimile machine serving as a data destination and

determines whether or not the reception allowance/rejection signal included in the signal from the reception-side facsimile machine which responds to the calling indicates reception allowance of the transfer of the facsimile data, and

when the transfer-side control portion determines that the reception allowance/rejection signal indicates the reception allowance, the transfer-side facsimile communication portion transmits, to the reception-side facsimile machine, the received facsimile data which is the target to be transferred whereas when the transfer-side control portion determines that the reception allowance/rejection signal indicates reception rejection, the transfer-side facsimile communication portion does not transfer the facsimile data.

4. A facsimile communication system comprising:

the transfer-side facsimile machine according to claim 1; and

the reception-side facsimile machine,

wherein the reception-side facsimile machine includes;

a reception allowance/rejection setting portion that sets reception allowance/rejection indicating whether or not the facsimile data which is transferred from the transfer-side facsimile machine and which is the target to be transferred is received;

a reception-side facsimile communication portion that performs facsimile communication; and

a reception-side control portion that transmits, from the reception-side facsimile communication portion to the transfer-side facsimile machine, the reception allowance/rejection signal which indicates, when the facsimile communication with the transfer-side facsimile machine is established according to calling from the reception-side facsimile machine based on a previously determined trigger, a detail of the reception allowance/rejection set by the reception allowance/rejection setting portion and which uses the communication signal in the previously determined facsimile communication protocol.

5. The facsimile communication system according to claim 4,

wherein when the reception-side control portion of the reception-side facsimile machine transmits the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating reception allowance of transfer data from the reception-side facsimile communication portion to the transfer-side facsimile machine, the reception-side facsimile communication portion receives the facsimile data transferred from the transfer-side facsimile machine.

6. The facsimile communication system according to claim 4,

wherein when the reception-side control portion transmits the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating reception rejection of transfer data from the reception-side facsimile communication portion to the transfer-side facsimile machine, the reception-side facsimile communication portion is made to complete the communication with the transfer-side facsimile machine.

7. The facsimile communication system according to claim 4,

wherein the reception-side facsimile machine includes a mode setting portion that sets the reception-side facsimile machine to an answering machine mode,

the reception allowance/rejection setting portion determines whether or not the reception-side facsimile machine is in the answering machine mode, and when the reception-side facsimile machine is not in the answering machine mode, sets a transfer reception flag at such a value that reception of the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred is allowed whereas when the reception-side facsimile machine is in the answering machine mode, sets the transfer reception flag at such a value that the reception of the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred is not allowed and

the reception-side control portion makes the reception-side facsimile communication portion transmit, to the transfer-side facsimile machine, the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating a detail of the transfer reception flag which is set.

8. The facsimile communication system according to claim 7,

wherein the reception-side control portion makes the reception-side facsimile communication portion transmit, to the transfer-side facsimile machine, a signal in which the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating the detail of the transfer reception flag that is set includes a communication type signal a detail of which indicates that the established facsimile communication is communication for transmitting the reception allowance/rejection signal.

9. A reception-side facsimile machine comprising:

a reception allowance/rejection setting portion that sets reception allowance/rejection indicating whether or not transfer data transferred from the transfer-side facsimile machine is received;

a reception-side facsimile communication portion that performs facsimile communication with the transfer-side facsimile machine; and

a reception-side control portion that transmits, from the reception-side facsimile communication portion to the transfer-side facsimile machine, a reception allowance/rejection signal which indicates, when the facsimile communication with the transfer-side facsimile machine is established in response to calling from the reception-side facsimile machine based on a previously determined trigger, a detail of the reception allowance/rejection set by the reception allowance/rejection setting portion and which uses a communication signal in a previously determined facsimile communication protocol.

10. The reception-side facsimile machine according to claim 9,

wherein when the reception-side control portion of the reception-side facsimile machine transmits the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating reception allowance of the transfer data from the reception-side facsimile communication portion to the transfer-side facsimile machine, the reception-side facsimile communication portion receives the facsimile data transferred from the transfer-side facsimile machine.

11. The reception-side facsimile machine according to claim 9, further comprising:

a mode setting portion that sets the reception-side facsimile machine to an answering machine mode,

wherein the reception allowance/rejection setting portion determines whether or not the reception-side facsimile machine is in the answering machine mode, and when the reception-side facsimile machine is not in the answering machine mode, sets a transfer reception flag at such a value that reception of the facsimile data which is a target to be transferred is allowed whereas when the reception-side facsimile machine is in the answering machine mode, sets the transfer reception flag at such a value that the reception of the facsimile data which is the target to be transferred is not allowed and

the reception-side control portion makes the reception-side facsimile communication portion transmit, to the transfer-side facsimile machine, the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating a detail of the transfer reception flag which is set.

12. The reception-side facsimile machine according to claim 11,

wherein the reception-side control portion makes the reception-side facsimile communication portion transmit, to the transfer-side facsimile machine, a signal in which the reception allowance/rejection signal indicating the detail of the transfer reception flag that is set includes a communication type signal a detail of which indicates that the established facsimile communication is communication for transmitting the reception allowance/rejection signal.