IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20080016171A1
• Filed: 09/19/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shono, Hiroki
• Granted Patent: US 7,953,807 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases

Abstract

A situation such that E-mail such as spam mail with contents which the user of a printing apparatus does not desire is sent to the printing apparatus and a user'"'"'s undesirable print is executed is prevented. For this purpose, whether an E-mail address of a transmitting source of the E-mail has been registered in an address book or not is discriminated. If it is not registered in the address book, this E-mail data is abandoned.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An electronic mail apparatus comprising:

a communicating unit that communicates an E-mail;

an address storing unit that stores at least one address of the E-mail;

a discriminating unit that discriminates whether an address of a transmitting source of the E-mail is stored in said address storing unit in a case where said communication unit receives the E-mail; and

an editing unit that, in a case where the received E-mail is a specified format and it is discriminated by said discriminating unit that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is stored in said storing unit, edits the content stored in said address storing unit in accordance with information included in the received E-mail.

17. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the specified format is a character string included in a header portion of the received E-mail.

18. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said editing unit adds an address included in a body portion of the received E-mail to said address storing unit.

19. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said editing unit deletes the content of said address storing unit.

20. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein said editing unit deletes an address included in a body portion of the received E-mail from said address storing unit.

21. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said apparatus includes a printer, a copying apparatus, a multifunction apparatus or a FAX apparatus.

22. A method for controlling an electronic mail apparatus, comprising:

storing at least one address of the E-mail to a storage device;

discriminating whether an address of a transmitting source of the E-mail is stored in the storage device in a case where the E-mail is received; and

editing the content stored in the storage device in accordance with information included in the received E-mail in a case where the received E-mail is a specified format and it is discriminated that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is stored in the storage device.

23. A computer-readable storage medium on which is stored a computer-readable program, the program executing a method for controlling an electronic mail apparatus and comprising:

storing at least one address of the E-mail to a storage device;

discriminating whether an address of a transmitting source of the E-mail is stored in the storage device in a case where the E-mail is received; and

editing the content stored in the storage device in accordance with information included in the received E-mail in a case where the received E-mail is a specified format and it is discriminated that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is stored in the storage device.