Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102573 | Image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus and program The MFP 101 compresses the image data read by the scanner 102 using the JBIG format, and then stores the image data in the image-data storing unit 104. The converting unit 109 of the MFP 101 converts the stored image data into a sp... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098409 | Image distribution system via e-mail A technique allowing the pictographic characters or the face marks to be converted to, for example, the corresponding, but more expressive and more vivid facial image of high picture quality and thereby to achieve compact but smooth and amusing communication. | 01/17/2012 |
| 7982919 | Image forming apparatus and information processing method and information processing program used therein An image forming apparatus, method, and computer program product can create and transmit an e-mail to which is attached an image file created by an image forming apparatus and a file received from an external device. The image forming apparatus can include an image ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982920 | Communication apparatus and data-transferring method If data to be transferred is received, a transferring condition for the received data is acquired based on specifying information for specifying an apparatus to which the transferring condition has been registered, and the transferring of the received data is contro... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7957036 | Facsimile device and program product for facsimile printing It is intended to provide a facsimile device and a program product for facsimile printing capable of surely making a user know receipt of an irregular e-mail such as an error mail or the like, without requiring extra volume of memory, while preventing waste of paper... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948660 | Electronic mail receiving device and facsimile machine A facsimile machine including an electronic mail receiving device, a condition data setting portion sets various condition data related to output of electronic mail (e-mail) message and stores the set condition data into an EEPROM. The condition data is used when an... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7936484 | Internet-based synchronized imaging A internet based method and apparatus is described for automatically processing a captured digital image taken by a smart device at a fixed-location, mobile or virtual event, and synchronizing the combination of that captured primary image with a secondary image, be... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934148 | Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages Systems and methods are provided for storing a mark-up language file and delivering the file from a network server to a user's computer via a packet switched data network using a hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP). The mark-up language file is stored in a storage a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7826100 | Methods and apparatus for facsimile transmissions to electronic storage destinations including embedded barcode fonts A method for a computer includes determining a call-in fax telephone number called by a facsimile transmission device, receiving the facsimile transmission from a facsimile transmission device including a digitized representation of a transmission page including an ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7697171 | Communications device and control method for transmitting an image by electronic mail A communications device and method for transmitting e-mail with image data attached as an attachment file can select whether to send the e-mail directly to the recipient or via a mail server, depending on the address of the e-mail to be transmitted. As a result, the... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7652798 | System and method for storing of print job data This invention is directed to a system and method for storing print jobs. The system and method comprise acquiring print job data representative of a desired print job, which print job data is comprised of a PDL format associated with a selected printer device and s... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7612920 | Multifunction image forming apparatus and document information searching method A control unit of a multifunction image forming apparatus obtains document information concerning copied documents, scanner read documents, and e-mail documents, and stores the obtained document information to a storing unit of a document storing unit. The control u... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7573615 | Multi-function image forming apparatus with improved scan-to-email function In a multi-function image forming apparatus connected with a network, an email transmission device extracts image data of an address area, a subject area, and a body area of an original document from image data of the original document according to a designated one ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7567364 | Pull model network image scanning system A system generates an electronic image of a document for later retrieval through a network connection. The system uses a network accessible scanning device to enable scanning of a document to generate an electronic image thereof and an electronic repository to elect... | 07/28/2009 |
| RE40845 | Facsimile machine with a mailbox function and remote operation mode A facsimile machine provided with a remote operation mode enabling a caller from a remote device to access and retrieve data from the facsimile machine and including a memory for storing the data to be accessed and retrieved by a caller during the remote operation m... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7518756 | Method and system for delivery of a facsimile using sensor with identifier A method of delivering a facsimile, including: providing a printed form for entering a message thereon using a sensing device adapted to read coded data on the form; receiving, in a computer system, interaction data representing interaction of the sensing device wit... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7483179 | Method and system for sending material A method for distributing a document by email. The method includes scanning a business document, extracting an email address from the business document, scanning a document and automatically emailing the scanned document to the email address extracted from the busin... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7457005 | Method for transmission of image data A method for transmission of image messages comprises the use of a plurality of transmission modalities to allow coupling of a conventional facsimile apparatus or other image-generating devices to remote equipment. An image transmission is made to a point of presenc... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453605 | Capturing digital images to be transferred to an e-mail address An electronic still camera for capturing images to be transferred to at least one e-mail address is disclosed. The electronic still camera includes an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of scenes and for producing image signals representative of the co... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7443532 | 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... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440463 | Method and apparatus for automatic document interchange between electronic mail (e-mail) and facsimile (fax) systems An ARPA-Internet Network Access/Service Provider device includes a fax gateway having a storage device for storing an e-mail message received from a sender through a data communication network. The stored e-mail message is converted to a fax document for transmissio... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7420702 | System for the management of files and mail attachments The invention is directed to a system for managing files and mail attachments. A system for managing files received by a user as an attachment to an e-mail in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a system for detaching a file from an e-mail; a sy... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421473 | Method and apparatus for image communications capable of effectively performing receipt acknowledgement A novel method of image communications with E-mail includes the steps of receiving, decoding, creating, attaching, and transmitting. The receiving step receives from a mail sender E-mail containing image information and including a request for a receipt acknowledgem... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417756 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is recorded Upon receiving a first e-mail, which is deprived of its attachment file due to a capacity limitation of mail server 21a, MFP 11a transmits a second e-mail containing its own IP address and a transfer request for transferring the attachmen... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414744 | Method for tracking internet fax jobs A method for tracking facsimile jobs may be employed to examine, at an originating device, an incoming facsimile transmission for information indicating that the transmission originated at the originating device, in which case the incoming message is determined to b... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411689 | Printer capable of network connection and method for controlling said printer This invention is composed as a printer which receives a print request from a computer, the print request including a request to a peripheral device to acquire print data, and sends the acquisition request to the peripheral device, and performs printing on the basis... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408664 | Harassment mail reception suppressing network facsimile A network facsimile includes a facsimile function of communicating with a facsimile via a public network and an electronic mail transmission function of transmitting electronic mail containing an image in a prescribed format to a transmission destination connected a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403312 | Communication terminal device A communication terminal device includes a first storage device storing a transmission reservation table which includes information of communication jobs to be transmitted, a second storage device storing image data to be transmitted, and a transmitter transmitting ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403311 | Network facsimile device A network facsimile device capable of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) receiving, via a network, electronic mail (email) to which facsimile image data is attached, the network facsimile device includes domain registration means for registering a domain of an add... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398297 | Email receiver and method of receiving email Upon occurrence of memory overflow, a POP3 protocol process section interrupts email reception by POP3 and stores a page count number at the interruption in the data memory area as the interrupted page number. After that, POP3 protocol process section starts recepti... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394559 | Network facsimile device and a method of controlling the network facsimile device A network facsimile device connected to the Internet or a local area network, employs an electronic mail function, and has a function of exchanging image information through said Internet or said local area network and functions of a facsimile device. The device com... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391527 | Method and system of using a multifunction printer to identify pages having a text string A method is directed to using a multifunction printer to identify pages of a printed document that have a specified text string. The method comprises electronically converting, with the multifunction printer, a plurality of pages of the printed document to a plurali... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391526 | Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system and medium used in transmitting/receiving an E-mail with a file attached thereto In transmitting/receiving an E-mail with a file attached to it, the contents of the attached file is to be displayed in a reception terminal irrespective of the file format of a file attached to the E-mail, the image size or the maximum number of colors in displayin... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388683 | Fax check/money order automatically from ATM An automatic teller machine capable of sending a facsimile of a check, money order, or other payment instrument to a payee designated by a user. The user inserts cash or allows an account to be debited to pay for the payment instrument, and the automatic teller mach... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382476 | Communication terminal device, facsimile device, and a method of controlling communication terminal device and facsimile device A communication terminal device and a facsimile device, and a method of controlling the communication terminal device and the facsimile device. The invention provides the communication terminal device capable of concentratedly controlling the information relating to... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382482 | Method and apparatus for allowing a user to send an electronic mail message A system for allowing a user to send an electronic mail message. The system including a computer system which determines information relating to sending a message, generates coded data indicative of at least one parameter relating to sending the message, and determi... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382478 | Internet facsimile machine A full-mode Internet facsimile machine includes a transmitter transmitting image data by using an electronic mail message after storing original image data in a storage unit, a designating device declaring and designating an effective period when holding original im... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375839 | Facsimile apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium In facsimile-communicating an original when the Internet selection state in an operation unit is set to “automatic selection”, the original is communicated by selecting the e-mail-based Internet for an A4 original size, and the session-based Internet for a B4 or... | 05/20/2008 |
