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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7009725 | Electronic mail communication apparatus and communication method A controller determines whether a transmission data amount of the image data exceeds a limit capacity of a mail server connected the electronic mail communication apparatus before an actual transmission of the image data. Further, when the transmission data amount o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009727 | Image data communications device and method An image data communication apparatus is connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmits image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network. The e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message. The image data attached... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010574 | System and method for managing multimedia messaging platforms A messaging network has a plurality of messaging platforms interconnected through a switched backbone, such as the Internet. A master platform can receive and store status messages destined for a messaging platform that does not have an active connection to the mess... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006241 | Communication apparatus The invention provides a internet facsimile apparatus of a communication apparatus that selectively attaches or does not attach various transmission information (header information) according to receivers. When a user set a read medium on an image reading unit, a re... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006890 | System and method for managing work load distribution among a plurality of image output devices A method, system, and computer software program for controlling operation of a photofinishing lab having a plurality of output devices for producing a plurality of different output products for a plurality of different job orders wherein each of the output devices c... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006146 | Digital still camera capable of telecommunication and modification of electromagnetic signal into digital electronic signal A digital still camera capable of telecommunication includes a device which converts an optical image into a digital electromagnetic signal indicative of a still image, a receiver which receives an electromagnetic signal generated in accordance with a wireless telep... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000828 | Remote automated document processing system An automated check processing system for accepting and processing checks from a customer, having a plurality of document scanners. The document scanners are adapted to obtain full images of checks fed into the document scanners and to obtain images of selected porti... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003528 | Method and system for web management A web management system including a file system caching web pages in a web site. The web management system parses attributes to generate the web pages and stores the web pages in the file system. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999192 | Method and system for facilitating paper to electronic communications A facsimile/email communication system for providing a user the ability to send emails from any standalone facsimile machine. The system does not require any additional hardware or software to be installed on equipment being used by a sender. The system further prov... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999187 | Image forming apparatus, communication system for maintenance of image forming apparatus, maintenance service method of image forming apparatus, and medium storing information to be used in maintenance As information for use in the maintenance of an image forming apparatus, information indicating an error occurrence portion, machine status information, operation log information, and the like is output and periodically transferred to a maintenance service provider ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996263 | Network interconnected financial document processing devices A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996096 | Communication apparatus and a method of controlling a communication apparatus Communication apparatus having first communication device conformed to a first communication standard and second communication device conformed to a second communication standard different from the first communication standard. A control unit is coupled to the first... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6995856 | Image data communications device and method An image data communication apparatus is connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmits image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network. The e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message. The image data is attac... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992711 | Digital camera with a plurality of media for recording captured images A digital camera reduces the possibility that a user's release operation is disabled and performs photographing operations at the appropriate times. The digital camera (1) can load a memory card (40a) and a magnetic disk card (40b)... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993559 | System, method, apparatus and computer program product for operating a web site by electronic mail Method, product, and apparatus of operating one or more Web pages by email. One embodiment of the method includes sending a first Web page to a first email address via a computer network as a first email message. The sent first Web page may include one or more of li... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988123 | Methods and apparatus for remote execution of an application over the internet In a network having an input device, such as a scanner, camera, or fax, and a destination device, the input device initiates transmission of input data to a destination device. The input device sends a request to the destination device notifying it of input data tha... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6982803 | Facsimile server, electronic mail device, and communication method A facsimile server referring to an electronic mail server for the data size of electronic mail which has reached the electronic mail server, detecting a receivable data size, and comparing the incoming electronic mail with the receivable data size. When the data siz... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6982801 | Internet facsimile apparatus and e-mail receiving method A blank determining section performs scanning of a text part of e-mail when receiving e-mail. The scanning of text part is carried out up to a next boundary. After the end of scanning, the blank determining section determines whether or not there is any code other t... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980331 | Automatic send to embedded fax/e-mail address Embedded writing or typing in a fax document or white board presentation are detected in a predetermined region of the document, recognized and converted into textual data corresponding to the fax telephone number or e-mail of the recipient of the document. The fax ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6981023 | Message routing Methods, devices, signals, and systems are provided in a message routing architecture which provides improved capabilities for integrating “digital” communication through email messages with “analog” communication through voice and/or fax or pager messages. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977740 | Method and system for centralized information storage retrieval and searching A business method for centrally managing documents in a client server system. The business method is operable in a client-server system with a database, a voice response system and a fax reception system to a telecommunications network. A user through the voice resp... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975419 | System and method for mobile printing A printing system and method are provided that facilitate the mobile printing of a document. The printing system comprises an automated print agent located in a device coupled to a network. The printing system also comprises a network alias associated with a printer... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972875 | Document delivery system for automatically suspending delivery of an electronic document The present invention provides a method and apparatus for suspending delivery of electronic documents, that is, stopping and restarting electronic delivery of documents according to a user's preset schedule. The method may include the steps of entering a delivery sc... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973514 | Printing system adapted to change a printing operation to be performed based on a result of an accounting operation There is disclosed a printer or copying machine which operates according to several different functional and operational modes, a host computer which sends a print or copy order to the printer or copying machine, which order may include the number of copies to be ma... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973589 | Electronic communications in intelligent electronic devices An intelligent electronic device (IED) is connected to interact with a power system to provide protection, control, and/or monitoring capabilities for the power system. The device includes a power system interface circuit for communicating with the power system and ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972874 | Image communicating apparatus An image communicating apparatus determines whether or not the amount of compressed image data is a predetermined amount or greater when transmitting a scanned color image as attached data in an e-mail message. If the amount of data is the predetermined amount or gr... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972858 | Image communication apparatus and image communication method A network controlling section makes communication with a receiver side, and receives receiver side information including the presence or absence of Internet facsimile capabilities on a receiver side, mail addresses, and an apparatus possession capability. A receiver... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968319 | Electronic bill presentment and payment system with bill dispute capabilities A bill presentment and payment remittance system is configured for use over an electronic network, such as the Internet. The bill presentment and payment remittance system allows the biller to create a bill and payment remittance information in a format specified by... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967739 | Facsimile machine and communication method A facsimile machine connected to PSTN to receive image data from another device over PSTN and transfer the image data to a designated recipient on another network such as LAN and internet. Delivery conditions are registered in a storage of the facsimile machine. Del... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965446 | Internet facsimile apparatus and internet facsimile communication method When an IFAX processing section transmits image information using e-mail, a timer monitoring section starts the count of a timer. After starting the count, a received mail determining section determines whether or not a timeout occurs. Also, the received mail determ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965398 | Internet camera An Internet camera, which operates in accordance with parameters contained in configuration data, is provided with a storage that stores the configuration data, a network interface for connecting the Internet with a predetermined site on the Internet. The Internet c... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965443 | Communication apparatus and storage medium A communication apparatus that reduces the number of procedural steps that need to be performed by a user in attaching facsimile data to an e-mail and transmitting the e-mail, includes a CPU of a personal computer that starts a transmission program for performing a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965666 | System and method for sending e-mails from a customer entity in a telecommunications network A system and method for sending an e-mail message from a subscriber entity in a telecommunications network are described. One exemplary method includes receiving a call request from a first subscriber entity to establish a call between the first subscriber entity an... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965682 | Data transmission by watermark proxy A media object sensed at one location is delivered at a second remote location, or an application associated with the object is made available at the second location. In some embodiments, the delivered object is of a higher quality than the sensed object. In other e... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963427 | Network facsimile system and supervising server therefor A supervising server (2) is connected to a communication network. The communication network includes a plurality of clients (3) and facsimile servers (1). The supervising server (2) has recipient information such as facsimile numbers of r... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963634 | Electronic-mail apparatus A method for receiving data, utilizing an electronic-mail communication apparatus. The method includes receiving image data in a facsimile format via a telephone network and receiving electronic mail data, including one of image data and character code data, via a c... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963417 | Internet facsimile apparatus and internet transmitting apparatus A plurality of destination mail addresses for broadcast transmission input from a panel control section is temporarily stored in an address data buffer. An address reading control section reads the destination mail addresses from the address data buffer in order to ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963928 | Systems and methods for communicating across various communication applications using single address strings Systems and methods are disclosed for providing addressing strings formats and associated system implementations to minimize the number of different addressing strings used for communicating across different communication applications. The systems and methods receiv... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961137 | Network facsimile communication control method In a network facsimile communication system including Internet fax devices and a server, the Internet fax devices have both a capability of exchanging fax images over a public switched telephone network PSTN and a capability of exchanging messages over the Internet.... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961411 | Electronic-mail apparatus An electronic-mail apparatus, comprises an electronic-mail receiver that receives an electronic-mail via a network, a converter that converts the electronic-mail into printable image data, and a facsimile receiver that negotiates with a facsimile sender. The facsimi... | 11/01/2005 |
