Server, data output system, data output method, and output terminal

• US 10,176,332 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gallio IP LLC (Endpoint IP LLC)
• Original Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Nonaka, Nobuyuki, Koyama, Toshimi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thien M
• Application Number:
  US11/452,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20060289626A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,591 Days
• Field of Search: 705 1, 705 18, 705 44, 705 67, 235382, 235385, 370279, 370329, 370338, 455 903
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2153 Using hardware token as a secondary aspect

Abstract

A server comprises an electronic data item receiving unit, an identification code receiving unit, an identification code storing unit, and an electronic data item transmitting unit. The electronic data item receiving unit receives an electronic data item. When a person exists within a predetermined range from an output terminal, the identification code receiving unit receives a first identification code concerning any one of the person and a device used by the person and a second identification code for identifying the output terminal. The identification code storing unit stores therein the first and second identification codes received by the identification code receiving unit, in association with each other. The electronic data item transmitting unit transmits the electronic data item received by the electronic data item receiving unit to a corresponding output terminal based on the first and second identification codes stored in the identification code storing unit.

Claims

1. A data output system comprising a plurality of output terminals and a server that is data-communicably connected to the output terminals,

wherein each of the output terminals includes

an antenna that, when an IC chip storing an identification code is within a predetermined range, reads the identification code from the IC chip,

an output unit that outputs an electronic data received from the server, and

a transmitting unit that transmits to the server the identification code read by the antenna and a terminal identification code for identifying an output terminal corresponding to the antenna having read the identification code among the output terminals;

and

wherein the server includes

an electronic data receiving unit that receives the electronic data and a specific code for specifying a destination of the electronic data,

a code receiving unit that receives the identification code and the terminal identification code transmitted by the output terminal, and

a processing unit that determines whether the specific code received by the electronic data receiving unit corresponds to the identification code received by the code receiving unit, and transmits the electronic data to the output terminal corresponding to the terminal identification code among the output terminals when determining that the specific code corresponds to the identification code.

2. The data output system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined range is communication coverage of the IC chip.

3. The data output system according to claim 1, wherein the output terminal includes a facsimile machine.

4. The data output system according to claim 1, wherein the IC chip is provided on an IC card.

5. The data output system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit, after the output unit outputs the electronic data, transmits a notification signal for notifying that the electronic data has been outputted, to a person using the output terminal outputting the electronic data.

6. The data output system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit, after the output unit outputs the electronic data, transmits through an electronic mail a notification signal for notifying that the electronic data has been outputted, to a person using the output terminal outputting the electronic data.

7. A data output method of an output terminal comprising a communication unit that transmits or receives electronic data and a specific code for specifying a destination of the electronic data, a storage device, an antenna that reads an identification code from an IC chip, and an output unit that outputs the electronic data, the data output method comprising:

reading, by the antenna, the identification code when the IC chip storing the identification code is within a predetermined range;

transmitting the identification code read by the antenna and a terminal identification code for identifying the output terminal corresponding to the antenna having read the identification code among a plurality of output terminals;

receiving the electronic data and the specific code based on the terminal identification code;

storing the electronic data and specific code in the storage device;

determining whether the identification code read by the antenna corresponds to the specific code stored in the storage device; and

when determining that the identification code corresponds to the specific code, outputs the electronic data from the output unit.

8. An output terminal which communicates with other output terminal, the output terminal and the other output terminal being installed at separated positions, the output terminal comprising:

a communication unit that transmits or receives electronic data and a specific code for specifying a destination of the electronic data;

a storage device;

an antenna that reads an identification code from an IC chip when the IC chip storing the identification code is within a predetermined range;

an output unit that outputs the electronic data; and

a CPU that

determines whether the identification code read by the antenna corresponds to the specific code stored in the storage device,

transmits the identification code read by the antenna and a terminal identification code for identifying the output terminal corresponding to the antenna having read the identification code among a plurality of output terminals,

receives the electronic data and the specific code based on the terminal identification code,

stores the electronic data and specific code in the storage device, and

when determining that the identification code corresponds to the specific code, outputs the electronic data from the output unit.

9. The output terminal according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined range is communication coverage of the IC chip.

10. The output terminal according to claim 8, wherein the output terminal includes a facsimile machine.

11. The output terminal according to claim 8, wherein the IC chip is provided on an IC card.

12. The output terminal according to claim 8, wherein the CPU, after the output unit outputs the electronic data, transmits a notification signal for notifying that the electronic data has been outputted, to a person using the output terminal outputting the electronic data.

13. The output terminal according to claim 8, wherein the CPU, after the output unit outputs the electronic data, transmits through an electronic mail a notification signal for notifying that the electronic data has been outputted, to a person using the output terminal outputting the electronic data.

14. A data output system for transmitting or receiving electronic data at a plurality of output terminals installed at separated positions, each of the output terminals comprising:

a communication unit that transmits or receives the electronic data and a specific code for specifying a destination of the electronic data;

a storage device;

an antenna that reads an identification code from an IC chip when the IC chip storing the identification code is within a predetermined range; and

an output unit that outputs the electronic data,

wherein each of the output terminals

determines whether the identification code read by the antenna corresponds to the specific code stored in the storage device,

transmits the identification code read by the antenna and a terminal identification code for identifying the output terminal corresponding to the antenna having read the identification code among a plurality of output terminals,

receives the electronic data and the specific code based on the terminal identification code,

stores the electronic data and specific code in the storage device, and

when determining that the identification code corresponds to the specific code, outputs the electronic data from the output unit.

15. The data output system according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined range is communication coverage of the IC chip.

16. The data output system according to claim 14, wherein the output terminal includes a facsimile machine.

17. The data output system according to claim 14, wherein the IC chip is provided on an IC card.

18. The data output system according to claim 14, wherein each of the output terminals, after the output unit outputs the electronic data, transmits a notification signal for notifying that the electronic data has been outputted, to a person using the output terminal outputting the electronic data.

19. The data output system according to claim 14, wherein each of the output terminals, after the output unit outputs the electronic data, transmits through an electronic mail a notification signal for notifying that the electronic data has been outputted, to a person using the output terminal outputting the electronic data.