Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090161154 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A communication device, having a first connecting unit for connecting to a network and a second connecting unit for connecting to an information processing apparatus, receives data from the network through the first connecting unit. The device includes a processing unit that processes the received data and a rejection information registering unit that registers rejection information indicating a specific source, wherein the communication device is not allowed to process data received from the specific source. When receiving data, the device determines whether information indicating a source of the received data is registered in the rejection information registering unit. When determining that the information indicating the source of the received data is not registered, the device transmits confirmation data to the information processing apparatus through the second connecting unit, and allows the processing unit to process the received data in accordance with the result of transmission of the confirmation data. | 06-25-2009 |
20100115470 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of executing a processing flow without changing the contents thereof even when the processing flow includes a process that cannot be executed by itself. When a processing flow includes an unexecutable process, the apparatus transmits a request for confirming whether or not the processing flow is executable, to other image processing apparatuses, and receives a response indicating that the processing flow is executable, from any of the other apparatuses. The apparatus determines a transfer destination of the processing flow from the other image processing apparatuses. The apparatus generate from the processing flow a first cooperation processing flow including executable processes and a second cooperation processing flow including at least one unexecutable process, and transfers the second cooperation processing flow to the determined transfer destination. The apparatus displays an execution button for executing the first cooperation processing flow. | 05-06-2010 |
20100214585 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a control method for an image processing apparatus that is capable of discharging sheets printed based on print jobs input by a plurality of users to a lockable paper discharge unit, the control method including authenticating a user, releasing locking of the lockable paper discharge unit according to an authentication result, holding status information indicating whether each of the plurality of users who have discharged sheets to the lockable paper discharge unit is authenticated in a holding unit, determining whether there is any user who is not authenticated based on the status information held in the holding unit, detecting presence/absence of a sheet or sheets discharged to the lockable paper discharge unit, and notifying that an error has occurred in taking out of sheets if, after locking of the locked lockable paper discharge unit is released, absence of a sheet or sheets in the lockable paper discharge unit is detected and presence of a user who is not authenticated is determined. | 08-26-2010 |
20110299107 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - When the start of a job is instructed, information indicating the start of the job is transmitted to an external apparatus, and the external apparatus receives and processes the transmitted job in response to the information. If another job is received during that time period, execution of that other job is restricted. | 12-08-2011 |
20120327470 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of executing a processing flow without changing the contents thereof even when the processing flow includes a process that cannot be executed by itself. When a processing flow includes an unexecutable process, the apparatus transmits a request for confirming whether or not the processing flow is executable, to other image processing apparatuses, and receives a response indicating that the processing flow is executable, from any of the other apparatuses. The apparatus determines a transfer destination of the processing flow from the other image processing apparatuses. The apparatus generate from the processing flow a first cooperation processing flow including executable processes and a second cooperation processing flow including at least one unexecutable process, and transfers the second cooperation processing flow to the determined transfer destination. The apparatus displays an execution button for executing the first cooperation processing flow. | 12-27-2012 |
20130055364 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus of this invention has a function of transmitting data to a server on a network and causing the server to store the data. Setting information including at least the validated period information of the data and the storage destination information of the server is stored. The information processing apparatus instructs the server to delete the data stored even after the elapse of a validated period represented by the validated period information based on the stored validated period information and the storage destination information of the server. | 02-28-2013 |
20130097691 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS COMMUNICATING WITH EXTERNAL DEVICE VIA NETWORK, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An object of the present invention is to more appropriately filter a packet from an external device. This object is achieved by: obtaining address information of the external device from the packet; judging whether or not the address information of the external device has been registered as filter information; extracting, when it is judged that the address information has not been registered, device discrimination information of the external device from the address information of the external device; judging whether or not address information having the same device discrimination information as the extracted device discrimination information has been registered as the filter information; and registering, when it is judged that the address information having the same device discrimination information has been registered, the address information of the external device as the filter information. | 04-18-2013 |
20140240769 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus capable of executing a wireless communication includes an identification unit, a display unit, a notification unit, and a connection unit. The identification unit identifies a communication partner of the wireless communication. The display unit displays, if an external apparatus which is the communication partner of the wireless communication is identified by the identification unit, a confirmation screen for allowing a user to confirm whether to execute the wireless communication with the external apparatus. The notification unit notifies, if the confirmation screen is displayed by the display unit, the external apparatus that the user is confirming whether to execute the wireless communication. The connection unit executes, if the user issues an instruction via the confirmation screen to execute the wireless communication with the external apparatus, connection processing for executing the wireless communication with the external apparatus. | 08-28-2014 |
20140269507 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus for performing communication with a communication terminal, and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus performs wireless communication with the communication terminal by a first wireless communication mode and performs wireless communication with the communication terminal by a second wireless communication mode in which either the communication apparatus or the communication terminal becomes an access point. The apparatus receives a switching instruction of communication mode from a user, and determines whether or not the switching of the communication mode in accordance with the received switching instruction is executable, makes a request for an additional instruction to the user when it is determined that it is not executable, and controls the switching of the communication mode in accordance with an additional instruction in response to the request. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297791 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus receives a packet, to which a sequence number is attached, from an external apparatus using UDP, determines whether or not to make a request for retransmission of a packet to the external apparatus based on the received packet, and transmits a retransmission request using TCP to the external apparatus in a case where it determines to make the request for the retransmission of the packet to the external apparatus. In a case where the apparatus transmits the retransmission request, the apparatus receives, using UDP, a packet that the external apparatus retransmitted in accordance with the retransmission request, and in a case where it is determined not to make a request for a retransmission, the apparatus transmits to the external apparatus, using TCP, a notification indicating that the packet has been normally received. | 10-02-2014 |