ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20180270367A1
• Filed: 03/16/2018
• Published: 09/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Katsunori
• Granted Patent: US 10,652,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/001 specially adapted for transmission via digital wireline networks H04N1/00098 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00103 specially adapted for radio transmission, e.g. via satellites H04N1/00098 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes circuitry to receive a request for generating electronic data from an information processing apparatus via a first communication network, generate the electronic data, receive storage destination information designating a storage destination of the electronic data from the information processing apparatus via the first communication network, and transmit the generated electronic data to the storage destination via a second communication network, different from the first communication network, based on the storage destination information received from the information processing apparatus.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

circuitry to receive a request for generating electronic data from an information processing apparatus via a first communication network;

generate the electronic data;

receive storage destination information designating a storage destination of the electronic data from the information processing apparatus via the first communication network; and

transmit the generated electronic data to the storage destination via a second communication network, different from the first communication network, based on the storage destination information received from the information processing apparatus.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the storage destination is a storage device different from the electronic apparatus and the information processing apparatus.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the electronic apparatus is configured to use the first communication network and the second communication network in parallel.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the storage destination information includes information a storage location used for storing the electronic data on a network.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the circuitry instructs the storage device to delete the electronic data stored in the storage device via the second communication network when the circuitry determines that a given time period or more elapses after transmitting the electronic data to the storage device from the electronic apparatus.

6. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry to

request an electronic apparatus to generate electronic data via a first communication network;

transmit storage destination information designating a storage destination of the electronic data on a network to the electronic apparatus via the first communication network; and

acquire the electronic data, generated by the electronic apparatus and then transmitted from the electronic apparatus to the storage destination designated on the network based on the storage destination information and stored in the designated storage destination, from the designated storage destination via a second communication network different from the first communication network.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the information processing apparatus is configured to use the first communication network and the second communication network in parallel.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the storage destination information includes information on a storage location of the electronic data set in a storage device disposed on the network, wherein the storage device is different from the electronic apparatus and the information processing apparatus.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 8,

wherein the storage location information includes a file name,

wherein the electronic data is assigned with the file name by the electronic apparatus and stored in the storage location in the storage device designated by the storage location information, and then the circuitry acquires the electronic data from the storage device by designating the storage location and the file name.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 8,

wherein the storage location information includes a folder,

wherein the circuitry acquires the electronic data, which is generated at a time later than a transmission time of the storage destination information transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the electronic apparatus via the first communication network, from the folder set in the storage device via the second communication network.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 8,

wherein the storage location information includes information of a location of an indirectly specified file designating a storage location on the network,

wherein the electronic data assigned with a file name by the electronic apparatus is stored at the location designated by the indirectly specified file, and the file name of the electronic data is added to the indirectly specified file by the electronic apparatus,

wherein the circuitry acquires the electronic data, having the file name added to the indirectly specified file, from the location designated by the indirectly specified file via the second communication network.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 8,

wherein the storage location information includes information of a location of an indirectly specified file designating a storage location on the network,

wherein the electronic data assigned with a file name by the electronic apparatus is stored at an alternate location different from the storage location designated by the indirectly specified file,

wherein the circuitry acquires the alternate location and the file name described in the indirectly specified file by the electronic apparatus based on the storage location information via the second communication network, and then the circuitry acquires the electronic data having the file name and stored at the alternate location from the storage device via the second communication network.

13. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the circuitry instructs the storage device to delete the electronic data stored in the storage device via the second communication network after the circuitry acquires the electronic data from the storage device via the second communication network.

14. The information processing apparatus of claim 7,

wherein the information processing apparatus is further configured to use a third communication network different from the second communication network,

wherein when a communication scheme of the information processing apparatus is switched to the third communication network from the second communication network before the circuitry acquires the electronic data from the storage device via the second communication network, the circuitry displays a message indicating that the electronic data is not yet received, on a display.

15. A communication system comprising:

an information processing apparatus;

an electronic apparatus configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus; and

a storage device on a network configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus and the electronic apparatus,

wherein the information processing apparatus includes first circuitry to

transmit a storage destination information of electronic data to the electronic apparatus via a first communication network, the storage destination information of the electronic data is used by the electronic apparatus to store the electronic data in the storage device on the network, and

acquire the electronic data, stored in the storage device by the electronic apparatus, from the storage device using the storage destination information via a second communication network different from the first communication network,

wherein the electronic apparatus includes second circuitry to

receive the storage destination information from the information processing apparatus via the first communication network,

generate the electronic data, and

store the electronic data in the storage device on the network via the second communication network based on the storage destination information received from the information processing apparatus.