Communication system and computer readable medium used therein

• US 9,600,593 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tomoki
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MINH CHAU
• Application Number:
  US12/570,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082797A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,729 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A communication system includes an information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus. The information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire a file that indicates feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information. The controller controls the display to display at least one of the feed location information described in the file and the title described in the file, and to display at least one of the feed location information registered in a device management unit and the title registered in the device management unit. Moreover the controller registers, into the device management unit, feed location information or feed location information corresponding to a title displayed on the first portion of the display, which is specified by the user.

Claims

1. A communication system, comprising:

an information processing apparatus; and

a communication apparatus connected, via a network, to the information processing apparatus;

wherein the information processing apparatus comprises;

a network communicating unit;

a display;

an instruction input device;

a memory configured to store RSS site information comprising feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired via the network in accordance with the feed location information; and

a controller that performs processing to;

acquire, via the network, feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information registered in advance in the communication apparatus;

extract a portion of the RSS site information stored in the memory, the portion of the RSS site information being one or both of the feed location information and the title of the feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information stored in the memory;

control the display to display simultaneously the extracted portion of the RSS site information and at least one of the feed location information acquired from the communication apparatus and the title acquired from the communication apparatus; and

transmit the extracted portion of the RSS site information into the communication apparatus via the network when the extracted portion of the RSS site information is selected via the instruction input device,

wherein the controller performs further processing to report an inhibition of selecting feed location information via the instruction input device when a number of feed location information registered in the communication apparatus reaches a registerable maximum number, and

wherein the communication apparatus comprises;

another network communicating unit configured to communicate with the network,

another memory configured to store RSS site information comprising feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information; and

another controller that performs processing to;

transmit, into the information processing apparatus via the network by way of the another network communicating unit, the RSS site information stored in the another memory, and

additionally register, into the another memory, the extracted portion of the RSS site information transmitted from the information processing apparatus via the network.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the controller of the information processing apparatus, before transmitting the extracted portion of the RSS site information to the communication apparatus, performs further processing to:

transmit, to the network, feed location information selected via the instruction input device or feed location information corresponding to a title selected via the instruction input device;

check whether a feed replied from the network is acquirable; and

report an inhibition of transmitting, into the communication apparatus, feed location information whose checked feed has not been acquirable.

3. The communication system according to claim 2, wherein the controller of the information processing apparatus, after reporting the inhibition of transmitting, performs further processing to stop transmitting the feed location information into the communication apparatus.

4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the controller of the information processing apparatus performs further processing to determine whether the number of feed location information registered in the communication apparatus after transmitting the extracted portion of the RSS site information reaches the registerable maximum number each time the controller of the information processing apparatus transmits feed location information into the communication apparatus via the network.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the RSS site information is an OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) file and the controller of the information processing apparatus performs further processing to eliminate a value of a type attribute and the location information of a website relevant to a feed before transmitting the extracted portion of the RSS site information into the communication apparatus via the network.

6. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the extracted portion of the RSS site information and at least one of the feed location information acquired from the communication apparatus and the title acquired from the communication apparatus are arranged side by side on the display.

7. A communication apparatus configured to be connected, via a network, to an information processing apparatus having a display and an input device, the communication apparatus, comprising:

a network communicating unit;

a memory configured to store RSS site information comprising feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information; and

a controller that performs processing to;

extract a portion of the RSS site information stored in the memory, the portion of the RSS site information being one or both of the feed location information and the title of the feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information stored in the memory;

simultaneously display the extracted portion of the RSS site information on the display and at least one of the feed location information acquired from the communication apparatus and the title acquired from the communication apparatus;

transmit, into the information processing apparatus via the network, the extracted portion of the RSS site information and a maximum number of registerable RSS site information pieces when the extracted portion of the RSS site information is specified via input to the input device, and

additionally register, into the memory, feed location information transmitted from the information processing apparatus via the network,

wherein the controller performs further processing to report an inhibition of selecting feed location information via the instruction input device when a number of feed location information registered in the communication apparatus reaches a registerable maximum number.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controller performs further processing to transmit, into the information processing apparatus via the network, a message concerning an inhibition of registration when the number of feed location information registered in the memory reaches a registerable maximum number.