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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180031 | Data communication apparatus and data communication method When data communication is performed by using a call control protocol, a data communication apparatus receives a call connection request message from an external apparatus and transmits a response message in reply to the call connection request message. At that time... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7433068 | Digital transmitter device A digital transmitter device to execute a network browser application to access an e-mail account of an e-mail server and retrieve data stored in thereat. The digital transmitter device can scan and send an image to a network address along with the retrieved data. | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423785 | Job recovery for scan to email A document is scanned in a scanning device to obtain electronic data. The electronic data represents information on the document. The electronic data is stored to a storage device. An error then occurs either before or after beginning transmission of the data to an ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7355735 | Real time fax over packet based network A method of establishing a fax connection on a link which is a portion of a composite connection. The method includes transmitting at least some signals of a negotiation procedure on the link and initiating a retrain on the connection, without identifying a problem ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349383 | Method and apparatus for low-latency, semantic conveyance of an answer tone over a data network Answer tone received at answering-side gateway and first classification signal is transmitted to a calling-side gateway that generates an answer tone in response to the signal. A second classification signal may be transmitted to the calling-side gateway that adjust... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330283 | Method for controlling error of internet fax data Provided are a method for controlling errors of an Internet fax data according to the statue of a network by using a receiver report (RR) message in a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) and a gateway to which the method is applied. Therefore, transmission e... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7319719 | Parallel equalization for systems using time division multiple access An equalization circuit is provided. The equalization circuit includes an input adapted to receive signals from a communications channel. The equalization circuit further includes a plurality of equalizer circuits coupled to the input and operable to generate a plur... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312904 | Apparatus, method and program for communication Facsimile communication is correctly performed even when an echo is generated in a communication line having a delay, by handling an echo signal in such a manner that when an echo of a CFR signal (according to the ITU-T recommendation V.21) transmitted from a receiv... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304755 | Facsimile apparatus, a method of displaying advertisement information through the facsimile apparatus and a communication system provided with the facsimile apparatus A facsimile apparatus includes a network interface device connected to a network and capable of transmitting and receiving facsimile data therebetween; an advertisement information acquiring device for acquiring advertisement information from an advertisement server... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7266629 | Data transfer control device and electronic instrument generating interface signal of signal type according to interface information set in internal register A data transfer control device including: a link controller which analyzes a received packet transferred from a host-side data transfer control device through a serial bus; an interface circuit which generates interface signals and outputs the generated interface si... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262887 | Network scanner system An image input section pre-inputs an image. A temporary storage section temporarily stores the image input by the image input section. An attribute control section controls at least attribute information of the input information temporarily stored in the temporary s... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254532 | Method for making a voice activity decision The invention relates to a method for determining voice activity in a signal section of an audio signal. The result, i.e., whether voice activity is present in the section of the signal thus observed, depends upon spectral and temporal stationarity of the signal sec... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7227655 | Utilizing otherwise unused space on cover or partition sheets A system and method for utilizing otherwise unused space on cover or partition sheets printed in response to a print command, which sheets otherwise typically become waste paper, by printing on such sheets additional information not directly related to the print job... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221800 | Document rendering with substituted matching text Text that is adjacent to predetermined indicia is detected in a digital image. Alternatively, or in addition, a digital image can have text that is adjacent to a predefined insertion field. Text that is input and/or derived from an optically scanned image is substit... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218424 | Facsimile transmission over packet networks with delivery notification A method for facsimile transmission over a packet network includes establishing a facsimile call between first and second facsimile terminals in accordance with a facsimile protocol, using a facsimile gateway to convey communications between the terminals over the p... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209264 | Pre-connection telephony data signal exchanges A method for conveying digital information can include initiating a telephone connection to a receiving device. Prior to establishing a voice channel connection with the receiving device, supplemental data can be digitally encoded into a CNG transmission. The CNG tr... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206085 | Network facsimile device and communication method therefor A network facsimile machine (1) is connected to PSTN (3) such that it can receive fax data from a remote facsimile machine (2) over the PSTN (3). The network facsimile machine (1) is also connected to LAN (6) such that it ca... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190474 | Method and system for advertising The invention concerns a method and system for producing a document containing user requested information, identifying an advertising space, outside an area of the document to be occupied by the information, and printing the document with advertising material in the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181514 | Internet facsimile communication system and internet facsimile communication adaptor An internet facsimile communication system capable, in the internet facsimile based on the Recommendation T.38, of receiving an incoming call for a facsimile communication regardless of the setting of receiving mode in the facsimile apparatus thereby avoiding a draw... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7170624 | System and method for advertising The present disclosure relates to a system and method for advertising. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to receiving data to be printed via a network, configuring the data for printing on a print medium, printing the data on the print medium, and pr... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167469 | Method for eliminating multiple modulation and demodulation of Voice band Data communication over packet and low data rate digital networks A method of processing Voice band Data in a communication path in a telecommunication network. The communication path consists of a plurality of Voice band Data relay gateways, including a first Voice band Data relay gateway, a last Voice band Data relay gateway, an... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7154630 | Printing apparatus and printing method A photographic print vending apparatus is provided which comprises a media accepting unit which accepts a recording medium having photographic image information stored thereon. An image information reader reads the image information from the recording medium, and a ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155538 | Adaptive forward error correction for optimizing communications over packet networks An apparatus and method for providing adaptive error correction for a fax and/or modem over packet network session is disclosed. A gateway device configured in accordance with the present invention comprises a controller configured to receive a signal from its local... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145993 | Communication apparatus A communication apparatus includes a register for registering a facsimile number of a sending destination for an abbreviation number, a register for registering an electronic mail address of the sending destination for the same abbreviation number, a key correspondi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133934 | Adaptive error correction for communications over packet networks An apparatus and method for providing adaptive error correction for a fax and/or modem over packet network session is disclosed. A gateway device configured in accordance with the present invention comprises a controller configured to receive a signal from its local... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7116435 | Facsimile device A facsimile device for transmitting image data, using a computer communication network such as the Internet. A transmitting side facsimile device FAX1a determines whether the Internet NTW or the public switched telephone network PSTN is used, by confir... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099459 | Method and device for handling echo in a communication network A method is provided for use with a telecommunication relay device adapted to convey voice-band data signals over a given transmission path in a telecommunication network, which relay comprises a transmitter operative to encode and transmit voice-band data informati... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7081973 | Facsimile machine and facsimile communications method A facsimile machine is provided that can shorten a time period required for a pre-transmission procedure through simple manipulation, thus improving the transmission efficiency. Moreover, a facsimile communications method using the facsimile machine is provided. Whe... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079586 | Systems and methods for optimal distribution of symbols in a fixed size data packet to improve receiver performance There is disclosed a transmitter for transmitting a stream of known symbols and unknown symbols through a transmission channel to a first receiver that receives the transmitted stream of known symbols and unknown symbols distorted by intersymbol interference (ISI) a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075979 | Modem relay over a packet network Various methods and systems for establishing modem relay connections are provided. For example, a modem relay method for use by a first gateway device in communication with a calling modem comprises the exemplary steps of: receiving a call from the calling modem for... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075671 | System and method for providing a printing capability for a transcription service or multimedia presentation A system and method for providing a printing capability using peripheral or stand-alone devices are disclosed. In the system and method, portions of a multimedia presentation, transcribed text, or both are output to a printing device. In the preferred embodiment, tr... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065099 | Digital circuit multiplication equipment In a digital circuit multiplication equipment (DCME) equipped with tandem pass-through function, a speech coding device and a speech decoding device are resettable in a synchronous resetting mode. The DCME includes a transmission device and a unit to continuously as... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062022 | Method and apparatus for fast V.90 modem startup A fast startup procedure for a modem system utilizes known characteristics of a previously established communication channel to reduce the initialization period associated with subsequent connections over the same channel. In response to the establishment of a call,... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051273 | Customizing forms in an electronic mail system utilizing custom field behaviors and user defined operations User-customizable forms in an electronic mail system enable an administrator to select customized field types and customized behaviors. The electronic mail system provides for the receiving and displaying of mail information in conjunction with the use of a user-cus... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043085 | Work identification system and signature management system A work identification system comprises a work storage configured to store digital data representing at least one of a shape, area, and color of an only one work, a collation section configured to calculate a degree of deviation between digital data representing at l... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035327 | Adaptive equalizer for use in information reproducing apparatus Hold registers receive a hold register enable signal. When reading one kind signal of header field data, the hold register enable signal is High and the registers store newly renewed values of filter coefficients, and when reading a different kind signal of recordin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7023805 | Communication connecting device capable of reliably transmitting data to an IP network and a data transmission control method A communication connecting device includes a terminal unit controller for temporarily storing data received from a sending terminal unit. A packetizer/depacketizer collectively codes the data sequentially read out in accordance with size information fed from a size ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012707 | Image forming apparatus utilizing T.33 protocol to include both extensions and secondary phone numbers A facsimile apparatus transmitting a subaddress signal includes an extension number input block for inputting a plurality of extension numbers, a second telephone number input block for inputting a plurality of secondary telephone numbers, and a direct input block f... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006476 | Communication apparatus and communication rate selecting method thereof A communication apparatus is provided, which is capable of selecting the communication rate at high speeds with increased reliability along with a communication rate selecting method for use therein. An TCH number in this station detecting means 21 is provide... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6980560 | System and method for connecting communication devices over packet networks There is provided system and method for communication over a network, which includes a first gateway and a second gateway capable of communicating with each other using a packet protocol. Further, the second gateway is capable of communicating with a communication d... | 12/27/2005 |
