Communication device and method for controlling communication device

• US 20030126219A1
• Filed: 12/20/2002
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Original Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Inventors: Tanimoto, Yoshifumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,318,084 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0253 using browsers or web-pages for accessing management information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/026 using e-messaging for transporting management information, e.g. email, instant messaging or chat
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail

Abstract

A communication device includes a communication unit that can transmit and receive an electronic mail message via a network. The communication device also includes a control unit forming a device setting form-data described as a structured document, transmitting the formed device setting form-data as an electronic mail message from the communication unit, and updating device setting by a device setting data received as the electronic mail message by the communication unit.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

means for transmitting and receiving an electronic mail message via a network; and

means for forming a device setting form-data described as a structured document, transmitting the formed device setting form-data as an electronic mail message from the means for transmitting and receiving, and updating a device setting by device setting data received as the electronic mail message by the means for transmitting and receiving.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the means for forming designates an electronic mail address of a return destination in a device setting form-data to be transmitted.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the means for forming embeds a present device setting data when forming the device setting form-data.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the means for forming transmits the device setting form-data in accordance with a reception of an electronic mail message demanding a transmission of the device setting form-data.

5. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the means for forming transmits the device setting form-data, after receiving an electronic mail message demanding a transmission of the device setting form-data, and carrying out an authentication.

6. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a means for carrying out an indication to the communication device, wherein the means for forming transmits the device setting form-data in accordance with an indication from the means for carrying out an indication.

7. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the means for forming carries out an authentication when updating the device setting by the device setting data.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the means for forming returns an update result as an electronic mail message by the means for transmitting and receiving after updating the device setting.

9. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the structured document is in the HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).

10. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the structured document is in the XML (eXtensible Markup Language).

11. A method for controlling a communication device, comprising:

forming a device setting form-data described as a structured document;

transmitting the formed device setting form-data as an electronic mail message; and

updating a device setting by the device setting data received as an electronic mail message.

12. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising designating an electronic mail message of a return destination in the device setting form-data to be transmitted.

13. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising embedding a present device setting data when forming the device setting form-data.

14. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising transmitting the device setting form-data in accordance with a reception of an electronic mail message demanding a transmission of the device setting form-data.

15. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising transmitting the device setting form-data after receiving an electronic mail message demanding a transmission of the device setting form-data, and carrying out an authentication.

16. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an indication from an operation unit, and

transmitting the device setting form-data in accordance with the indication.

17. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising carrying out the authentication when updating the device setting by the device setting data.

18. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising returning an update result as an electronic mail message after updating the device setting.

19. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising providing the structured document in the HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).

20. The method for controlling the communication device according to claim 11, further comprising providing the structured document in the XML (eXtensible Markup Language).

21. A communication device, comprising:

a communication unit that can transmit and receive an electronic mail message via a network, and

a control unit forming a device setting form-data described as a structured document, transmitting the formed device setting form-data as an electronic mail message from the communication unit, and updating a device setting by device setting data received as the electronic mail message by the communication unit.