Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, transmission method, reception method, and program

• US 8,745,286 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): ABAD, FARLEY J
• Application Number:
  US12/829,236
• Publication Number:
  US 20110009072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,433 Days
• Field of Search: 710/5, 710/11, 710/30, 455/68, 455/91, 455/130
• US Class Current: 710/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols

Abstract

A transmission apparatus transmits a part of a message by a first protocol and a remainder of the message by a second protocol to the reception side, and further transmits a processing module for receiving the remainder on the reception side by the second protocol, to the reception side by the first protocol. The transmission apparatus controls the transmission of the remainder to transmit the remainder of the message to the reception side by the second protocol in a state where the reception side can perform reception.

Claims

1. A transmission apparatus comprising:

a transmission unit configured to transmit a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, the message including the processing module is transmitted to a reception side by a first protocol, wherein the processing module is a program to be incorporated in the reception side for allowing the reception side to receive the data attachment by a second protocol on the reception side;

a generation unit configured to generate the data attachment that was separated from the message after being notified from the reception side that the processing module has been incorporated to the reception side and the reception side has been available to receive the data attachment by the second protocol; and

a control unit configured to control the transmission unit to transmit the generated data attachment to the reception side by the second protocol.

2. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit transmits a part of the message including an identifier of the remainder by the first protocol.

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit transmits the message to which the processing module is attached, including a part of the message.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit determines whether the message is transmitted by using the second protocol in addition to the first protocol.

5. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when a volume of the message is more than a predetermined amount, the transmission unit transmits the message by using the second protocol in addition to the first protocol.

6. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit transmits data included in the message, by a protocol according to the data.

7. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit receives from the reception side a notification indicating that reception in the second protocol is possible on the reception side.

8. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit transmits a message in which a storage area for storing the remainder is empty, by the first protocol.

9. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a part of the message is a structured document.

10. A transmission method executed by a transmission apparatus, the transmission method comprising:

transmitting a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, the message including the processing module is transmitted to a reception side by a first protocol, wherein the processing module is a program to be incorporated in the reception side for allowing the reception side to receive the data attachment by a second protocol on the reception side;

generating the data attachment that was deleted from the message after being notified from the reception side that the processing module has been incorporated to the reception side and the reception side has been available to receive the data attachment by the second protocol; and

controlling the transmission to transmit the generated data attachment to the reception side by the second protocol.

11. The transmission method according to claim 10, wherein a part of the message and the processing module are transmitted as a message which includes the part and to which the processing module is added.

12. The transmission method according to claim 10, wherein data attached to the message is transmitted as the remainder, by the second protocol.

13. The transmission method according to claim 10, wherein it is determined whether the message is transmitted by using the second protocol in addition to the first protocol.

14. The transmission method according to claim 10, wherein a message indicating that a storage area for storing a remainder is empty is transmitted by the first protocol.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a transmission program, the transmission program comprising:

transmitting a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, the message including the processing module is transmitted to a reception side by a first protocol, wherein the processing module is a program to be incorporated in the reception side for allowing the reception side to receive the data attachment by a second protocol on the reception side;

generating the data attachment that was deleted from the message after being notified from the reception side that the processing module has been added to the reception side and the reception side has been available to receive the data attachment by the second protocol; and

controlling the transmission to transmit the generated data attachment to the reception side by the second protocol.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein a message which includes a part of the message and to which the processing module is attached, is transmitted.

17. A communication method executed by a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus, the communication method comprising:

transmitting a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, the message including the processing module is transmitted to a reception side by a first protocol, wherein the processing module is a program to be incorporated in the reception side for allowing the reception side to receive the data attachment by a second protocol on the reception side;

generating the data attachment that was deleted from the message after being notified from the reception side that the processing module has been incorporated to the reception side and the reception side has been available to receive the data attachment by the second protocol; and

controlling the transmission of the transmission apparatus to transmit the generated data attachment to the reception apparatus by the second protocol.

18. The communication method according to claim 17, wherein the reception apparatus identifies data which is included in a remainder and corresponds to an identifier included in the part.

19. The communication method according to claim 17, wherein the processing module which allows the reception apparatus to receive a remainder by the second protocol is deleted from the reception apparatus after the remainder of the message is received by the second protocol.

20. A reception apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, by a first protocol, the message including the processing module and the processing module which allows the reception unit to receive data attachment by a second protocol, and further receive the data attachment by the second protocol;

a notification unit configured to notify transmission side that the processing module has been incorporated to the reception side and the reception side has been able to receive the data attachment by the second protocol; and

an identifying unit configured to identify data attachment, received by the second protocol, corresponding to an identifier included in the message received by the first protocol.

21. The reception apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the identifying unit identifies data corresponding to the identifier, as data to be attached to the message.

22. A reception method executed by a reception apparatus, the reception method comprising:

receiving a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, by a first protocol, the message including the processing module is transmitted to a reception side by a first protocol and the data attachment by a second protocol;

notifying transmission side that the processing module has been incorporated to the reception side and the reception side has been able to receive the data attachment by the second protocol;

capturing from the message a processing module for receiving the data by the second protocol; and

identifying data attachment, received by the second protocol, corresponding to an identifier included in the message received by the first protocol.

23. The reception method according to claim 22, wherein the data corresponding to the identifier is identified as data to be attached to the message.

24. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a reception program, the reception program comprising:

receiving a message, a data attachment is separated from the message and a processing module is added to the message, by a first protocol, the message including the processing module is transmitted to a reception side by a first protocol and the data attachment by a second protocol;

notifying transmission side that the processing module has been incorporated to the reception side and the reception side has been able to receive the data attachment by the second protocol;

capturing from the message a processing module for receiving the data by the second protocol; and

identifying data attachment, received by the second protocol, corresponding to an identifier included in the message received by the first protocol.