DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20080189574A1
• Filed: 09/24/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: TAKI, Kazunari, UENO, Hideo, IKENO, Takahiro, SUZUKI, Masashi, KOIE, Hiroshi, HOSOKAWA, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,125,670 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/15
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5087 for receiving image data
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00109 Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host

Abstract

A data processing apparatus includes a data reading unit that reads data from a non-contact tag, and a restoration unit that restores a file when the data reading unit reads, from the non-contact tag, (i) location information indicating a storage location where the file is previously stored and (ii) at least one of a flag indicating that the file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the file, in accordance with the read at least one of the flag and the restoration program.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus comprising:

a data reading unit that reads data from a non-contact tag; and

a restoration unit that restores a file when the data reading unit reads, from the non-contact tag, (i) location information indicating a storage location where the file is previously stored and (ii) at least one of a flag indicating that the file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the file, in accordance with the read at least one of the flag and the restoration program.

2. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first saving unit that saves the file restored by the restoration unit in a specified storage location.

3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the first saving unit makes a folder structure defined by the location information in the specified storage location and saves the file restored by the restoration unit in the storage location indicated by the location information in the specified storage location.

4. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second saving unit that saves the file restored by the restoration unit at the storage location indicated by the location information.

5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein when the storage location indicated by the location information is not present, the second saving unit makes a folder structure defined by the location information and saves the file restored by the restoration unit in the storage location indicated by the location information.

6. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the first saving unit,

wherein the terminal further includes the restoration unit.

7. The data processing apparatus according to claim 4, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the second saving unit,

wherein the terminal further includes the restoration unit.

8. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the first saving unit,

wherein the host further includes the restoration unit.

9. The data processing apparatus according to claim 4, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the second saving unit,

wherein the host further includes the restoration unit.

10. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a failure information generation unit that generates failure information indicating that the restoration unit fails in restoration processing.

11. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a failure information generation unit that generates failure information indicating that the restoration unit fails in restoration processing or that the first saving unit fails in saving processing.

12. The data processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a failure information generation unit that generates failure information indicating that the restoration unit fails in restoration processing or that the second saving unit fails in saving processing.

13. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the restoration unit restores the file by accessing the storage location indicated by the location information.

14. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when the data read from the non-contact tag by the data reading unit includes the flag indicating that the file is to be restored, the restoration unit automatically restores the file,

wherein when the data read by the data reading unit does not include the flag, the data read by the data reading unit is displayed.

15. The data processing apparatus according to claim 14,

wherein when the data read from the non-contact tag by the data reading unit includes the flag indicating that the file is to be restored and the restoration program for restoring the file, the restoration unit automatically installs the restoration program and restores the file with using the restoration program.

16. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image data saving unit that, when the data read by the data reading unit includes either one of image data and original data of the image data corresponding to an image formed on a surface of a recording medium equipped with the non-contact tag, saves the either one of the image data and the original data.

17. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the non-contact tag is attached to a recording medium on which an image based on contents of the data stored in the non-contact tag.

18. A data processing apparatus comprising:

a data recording unit that records data on a non-contact tag attached to a recording medium including a surface on which an image is capable to be formed;

a data specifying unit that specifies a file to be recorded by the data recording unit on the non-contact tag, and

a recording control unit that controls the data recording unit to selectively record either one of;

(i) at least data of the specified file and location information indicating a storage location where the specified file is stored;

(ii) at least a file name of the specified file and the location information;

(iii) at least the data of the specified file, the location information, and at least one of a flag that indicates that the specified file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the specified file; and

(iv) at least the file name of the specified file, the location information and at least one of the flag and the restoration program.

19. The data processing apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising:

an image forming unit that forms, on the surface of the recording medium, an image based on contents of data to be saved in the non-contact tag.

20. A data processing apparatus comprising:

a data reading unit that reads data form a non-contact tag, and

a restoration unit that restores a file, when the data reading unit reads, from the non-contact tag, location information indicating a storage location where the file is previously stored, based on the read location information.

21. A recording medium comprising:

a non-contact tag storing location information indicating a storage location where a file is previously stored, and at least one of a flag indicating that the file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the file; and

a surface on which an image indicating a relationship between the storage location and other file and folder is formed.